Fighters from the notorious paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town, a doctors’ group and the United Nations said.
It was the group’s latest attack against the Sudanese military after suffering a series of setbacks, losing ground to the military in the area. The war, which has been ongoing for more than a year and a half, has wrecked the African country, displacing millions of its population and pushing it to the brink of a full-blown famine.
RSF fighters went on a rampage in villages and towns on the eastern and northern sides of the province of Gezira from Oct. 20 to 25, shooting at civilians and sexually attacking women and girls, the UN said in a statement on Saturday, adding that they looted private and public properties, including open markets.
The attack …