At least 1.000 people were killed when a landslide buried a village in the Mara Mountains in the Darfur region of western Sudan, leaving just one survivor, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) announced on Monday.
The landslide hit the community on August 31, after days of heavy rain, according to the organization, which is led by Abdelouahid Mohamed Nour.
The movement, which controls part of the vast Darfur region, called on the UN and international aid organizations to help recover the bodies of the victims — men, women and children.
The village was "completely leveled," the same source stressed.
Many of the victims had fled to escape the war between the regular army and the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been raging since April 2023, and took refuge in the Mara Mountains, despite food and medicine shortages in the area.
The war in Sudan, now in its third year, has killed tens if not hundreds of thousands of people, displaced millions more and caused what the UN calls “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” with more than half the population facing food insecurity. The most active front currently is the besieged capital of North Darfur state, El Fasher, where the IDF is trying to take control, escalating its attacks.
Source: protothema.gr
