At Least 45 Killed in Paramilitary Attack in Darfur, Western Sudan
Referential image. Sudan’s al-Fashir city, capital of the Darfur state. Photo: X/ @AlexkennedyIran
March 22, 2025 Hour: 3:41 pm
At least 45 civilians died this Saturday in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in a town near the city of Al Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, in western Sudan.
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According to the local NGO Coordination of Resistance Committees, the paramilitary attack took place in the town of Al Malha, where fighters from “the RSF resumed their attacks on markets and residential neighborhoods, shooting indiscriminately and causing the death of at least 45 civilians.”
A spokesman for the NGO told the EFE news agency that the number of fatalities “is preliminary”, and explained that the “massacre” occurred when “residents of the locality tried to confront the militiamen of the RSF” who “looted markets and houses of citizens”.
Another local NGO, the Sudanese Doctors Network, raised the death toll in Malha to 48 in a statement, claiming that the paramilitary group “committed mass executions against 48 citizens in the Malha area for ethnic reasons, while another 63 were injured.”
The Coordination of Resistance Committees warned that “what is happening in Al Malha is indescribable,” and denounced “widespread killings and looting” by paramilitary militias deployed in the neighborhoods of the area.
The reports about the massacre in Al Malha, to which the paramilitaries have not yet reacted, coincide with significant advances by the regular army in Khartoum, which in the last 24 hours managed to expel the RSF from the Presidential Palace, in the center of the city, among other areas and strategic sites.
Since last Thursday, the Sudanese army and its allies, the Joint Forces and the Popular Resistance, have engaged in violent clashes against the RSF near Malha, according to the regional governor of Darfur, Minni Arko Minawi, in a statement.
In North Darfur state, where Malha is located, more than 13,000 victims, including dead and injured, have been recorded since the outbreak of the war in Sudan two years ago, according to a balance sheet from the Ministry of Health in early March.
North Darfur is the only one of the five states in the vast western region of Darfur that is not fully controlled by the RSF, which has maintained a suffocating siege on the state capital, Al Fasher, the army’s last stronghold in the area, for eleven months.
Autor: ACJ
Fuente: EFE