Sudan’s government accuses militia of killing scores in massacre

CNN — More than 100 people were killed in an attack by rebel forces in Sudan, the country’s governing body said, in what would be the latest atrocity in the yearlong war that has displaced more than 7 million people.

The Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of carrying out a “heinous massacre.”

The Sudanese Congress Party (SCP), a leading opposition party, said in a statement that more than “one hundred people were killed, and scores injured,” during an RSF attack on Wednesday morning in Wad Al-Noura village, Al-Jazira State, known as the country’s breadbasket and located in the east-central region.

The RSF has been at war with the Sudanese Army (SAF) since April 2023 and the transitional council has called for an immediate cessation to what it says are crimes and violations against civilians in the Al-Jazira region and beyond.