Ethnic violence left 15,000 dead in Sudan 

A United Nations report has estimated that up to 15,000 people were killed last year in one Sudanese city alone by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allies.

In the report to the UN Security Council, independent UN sanctions monitors attributed the toll in El Geneina to intelligence sources and contrasted it with the UN estimate that about 12,000 people have been killed across Sudan since war erupted on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese army and the RSF.

The monitors also described as credible accusations that the United Arab Emirates had provided military support to the RSF ‘several times per week’ via Amdjarass in northern Chad. A top Sudanese general accused the UAE in November of backing the RSF war effort.

In a letter to the monitors, the UAE said 122 flights had delivered humanitarian aid to Amdjarass to help Sudanese fleeing the war.

The United Nations says about 500,000 people have fled Sudan into eastern Chad, several hundred kilometers south of Amdjarass.

Between April and June last year El Geneina experienced ‘intense violence’, the monitors wrote, accusing the RSF and allies of targeting the ethnic African Masalit tribe in attacks that ‘may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity’.