The fighting has decimated many areas of the capital. But the war between the military has swept over to the western region of Darfur — an area already blighted by two decades of genocidal violence. Fighting between rival Sudan generals; hundreds killed:
Sudanese women and children who fled camp out in makeshift tents, awaiting aid, in Koufroun, Chad, May 10, 2023.
The gunmen who poured into El Geneina were backed by the paramilitary forces. They were met with fierce resistance from armed fighters, including some of the city’s residents, who had received weapons from the army, according to doctors, aid workers and analysts. They include Hamza Abubakar, a 30-year-old who fled the village of Misteri in West Darfur after it was attacked at dawn in late May by Arab militants backed by the Rapid Support Forces. As people fled their homes, he said, the militants, who wielded AK-47s and other guns, chased them on horses, camels and in cars. Abubakar had a bullet wound in his left arm and was recuperating at a clinic.
When the fighting began in Khartoum in April, the rival military forces also began clashing in Darfur, leading to mass killings of civilians, looting of food warehouses and attacks on aid workers. “El Geneina is one of the worst places to be on Earth at this moment,” said Fleur Pialoux, a project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in El Geneina, who evacuated the city in late April.
With the collapse of the cease-fire talks in Saudi Arabia and the call to arms issued by the governor of Darfur, Mini Arko Minawi, the region could be drawn into more vicious and protracted warfare.
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