The Sudanese government has accused the RSF militia of killing hundreds of people in the southern town of Al-Nahud
The Sudanese government on Saturday accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rebel militia of killing at least 300 civilians in a “massacre” in a town in the south of the country.
The killings are alleged to have taken place in the West Kordofan town of Al Nahud, which the paramilitary group claimed on Friday to have seized from government forces.
“Over the past two days, [the RSF] has committed a new heinous massacre against civilians in the city of Al-Nahud, where killings were carried out on an ethnic basis,” Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“The number of victims has so far reached approximately 300 dead,” it said.
On Friday, the Sudan Doctors’ Network said more than 100 people had been killed in the town, including 21 children and 15 women.
RSF fighters looted medical supplies, markets and the hospital, it said in a post on X.
The RSF has not commented on the accusations.
The rebel group said on Friday that it taken control of Al Nahud and seized the headquarters of the army’s 18th infantry division.
Al Nahud is strategically located close to Darfur, which has been fiercely contested by government forces and the RSF.
The town had been serving as the temporary capital of West Kordofan after the RSF seized Al-Fula last July.
The Sudanese army and the RSF have been fighting a brutal civil war for more than two years, with tens of thousands of people killed and millions displaced.
The UN has said that the conflict has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with several parts of the country falling into famine and both sides accused of committing war crimes.
One study in November estimated that more than 61,000 people had been killed during the first 14 months of the war in Khartoum state.
