Sudan’s RSF chases civilians out of villages in violent raids

People fleeing the violence in West Darfur, cross the border into Adre, Chad on August 4, 2023.

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Salwa Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces barged into her home in Sudan's eastern El Gezira state late last month.

They accused her of loyalty to the army and its allies, their rivals in an 18-month war. "They said 'You killed us, so today we'll kill you and rape your girls,'" she told Reuters, sheltering under a makeshift sheet in the town of New Halfa, where she arrived after walking for days on foot with her elderly mother and children.