More than a year of brutal war in Sudan between two factions of its army has killed tens of thousands and forced more than 8 million people to flee their homes. Some 5 million are now at risk of starvation there.

A leading rights group says attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces and their allied militias that killed thousands in the western region of Darfur last year constitute a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the area’s non-Arab population.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militia groups in Sudan led a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region last year, according to Human Rights Watch. Over the course of an eight-month period in 2023, soldiers from the Arab ...

In its new report, “The Massalit Will Not Come Home,” Human Rights Watch concludes that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), an independent military force, and its allies, primarily Arab militias, are responsible for a campaign of ethnic cleansing,

As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries in Sudan

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), along with the allied militias, have been accused of ethnic cleansing as well as crimes against humanity in their war with Sudan's regular army, which began in April last year.