How Arab fighters carried out an ethnic massacre in Sudan
By Reuters
29 September 2023 |
3:02 pm
As Sudan plunged into civil war, the ethnic-African Masalit tribe came under weeks of systematic attacks in West Darfur by the paramilitary RSF and its Arab militia allies.
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