Ethnic killings in one Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead, finds UN report
Sudanese women who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region,wait beside their belongings at the border between Sudan and Chad in July. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra.
Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan's West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday.
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.
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