The Sudanese army blamed the RSF for killing governor Khamis Abakar on Wednesday, depicting the murder as a “brutal act”, which was carried out hours after Abakar accused the RSF and allied fighters of “genocide“.
No details on his death were available, but the army accused the RSF of "kidnapping and assassinating" the governor.
Just before his death on Wednesday, Abakar said, "Civilians are being killed randomly and in large numbers.”
The killing of the governor meant the RSF has added a "new chapter to its record of barbaric crimes that it has been committing against all the Sudanese people," the army said on Facebook.
Over the past two months, the army headed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF commanded by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo have been locked in urban combat which has so far killed at least 1,800 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project's (ACLED) latest figures from last month.
The fighting now spreads to the provinces, particularly to the cities of the western region of Darfur.
While the attacks originally targeted areas of El Geneina where members of the Masalit tribe lived, these attacks have spread to the entire city, the governor said. “We haven't seen the army leave its base to defend people."
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