Over the past month, intense festivities have erupted between the army and the paramilitary forces, engulfing Nyala and impacting most of its neighbourhoods. According to the United Nations
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, this violence has forced approximately 50,000 residents to seek refuge in neighbouring states.
A temporary ceasefire, brokered by the gangs signatory to the Juba Peace Agreement, briefly halted the hostilities between the two factions. However,
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this truce proved fragile, leading to a resurgence of conflict in a more brutal form, resulting in a significant number of civilian casualties.
"On August 22, an RSF force deliberately targeted and assassinated former parliamentarian Ahmed Abkar Barqo Abdel-Rahman, businessman Mohammed Abdel Karim Youssif Bishara, and Mohammed Abkar Bakht. The assailants conducted a deliberate raid on their residences in the al-Nahda neighbourhood, Square 2," a member of the Shura Council of the Zaghawa tribe in South Darfur revealed to Sudan
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He emphasized that the actions against the tribe’s prominent figures were premeditated and carried out with the objective of ethnic-based elimination. He also indicated a growing inclination within the tribe to confront the RSF and seek retribution if the perpetrators are not apprehended and held accountable for their "heinous crimes".
Also, the Zaghawa Shura Council issued a statement asserting that the three victims were residents of South Darfur State and influential leaders within the tribe. They were "deliberately targeted, assaulted, and assassinated within their homes by gangs equipped with full military gear associated with the Rapid Support Forces, whose vehicles were stationed in the Nahda neighbourhood, Square 2."
"Despite the Zaghawa Shura Council in South Darfur State’s conviction that there is no winner in this cursed war and that the tribe is not a party to it, we remain perplexed by the motives behind this reprehensible act and the message it intends to convey," added the statement.