An estimated “8,000 households were displaced from Saloma village and the surrounding area” south of state capital El-Fasher on Friday and Saturday, said the UN’s International Organization for Migration.
The RSF attacked Saloma on Friday, said Ahmed Rejal, spokesman for civil society group the Darfur General Coordination of Camps for the Displaced and Refugees.
At war with the Sudanese army since April 2023, the RSF has seized nearly all of Darfur except El-Fasher, which it has besieged since May.
It has stepped up attacks around El-Fasher in recent weeks, shelling famine-stricken displacement camps and battling army-allied militias.
In Saloma, “village homes were burned” during the fighting, Rejal said.
The war has killed tens of thousands and uprooted 12 million.
In North Darfur alone, 1.7 million are displaced, while two million face extreme food insecurity, the United Nations says.
Famine has already gripped three displacement camps around El-Fasher — Zamzam, Abu Shouk and Al-Salam — and is expected to spread to five more areas, including El-Fasher itself, by May.
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