File photo of Sudanese members of the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary force backed by the Sudanese government to fight rebels in 2017. AFP PHOTO / ASHRAF SHAZLYUN officials reported a fresh massacre of more than 60 people in Sudan’s West Darfur, as the country’s prime minister promised fresh troops for the conflict-stricken region.
“This was one of the latest of a series of security incidents reported over the last week that left several villages and houses burned, markets and shops looted, and infrastructure damaged,” said the statement, from the OCHA’s Khartoum office. The force will include army and police, he said in a statement after he met a delegation of women from the region.On Friday, armed men drove into a village and killed 20 civilians returning to their fields for the first time in years, an eyewitness and a tribal chief told AFP.
The government and a coalition of nine rebel groups, including factions from the region, signed a preliminary peace deal in January. “During the war, peasants fled their lands and villages to camps, and nomads replaced them and settled there.”The recent killings have targeted the African farming communities in conflict with the nomadic Arab tribes over the land.
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