Sudan: Rapid Support Forces kill 32 people in attack on village
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have killed over 30 people in a two-day assault on a village in the South Kordofan region, according to an activist group via AP on July 24th.
The Kordofan region has become a key strategic battlefield in Sudan’s civil war between the military and the Rapid Support Forces. It has recently been exposed to an extreme surge in violence by the paramilitary group, wherein over 450 civilians were killed in raids on several villages in mid-July.
The most recent attacks took place on July 23rd when the Rapid Support Forces targeted Brima Rashid village, located to the north of the strategically key town of al-Nahud in West Kordofan province, which was seized by the group in May 2025.
The Kordofan region is seen as a gateway to the vast Darfur region, where the paramilitary group has intensified violence in a bid to flush out the final remnants of the military and seize total control. Analysts see this as part of a wider vision to establish a rival government to challenge the authority of the military-backed administration in Port-Sudan.
The local Emergency Room, which is an activist group tracking developments in the war, said it recorded the killing of 32 people in the assault which lasted until the morning of July 24th. It also revealed on its Facebook page that over 50 people were wounded.
An RSF spokesman failed to immediately comment following a request to do so.
The casualties are up from 27 dead and 47 wounded reported early on the 23rd by the Sudan Doctors’ Network, a medical group also monitoring the war.
The network said that RSF combatants “targeted unarmed civilians in their homes – including women, children, and the elderly – in a bloody scene reminiscent of the most horrific crimes against humanity.”
The war in Sudan, which has raged on since April 2023 as part of a power struggle between the Sudanese military and RSF, has killed over 24,000 people and displaced more than 13 million.
Both warring parties have been recorded committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. The UN recently warned of the imminent possibility that genocide will occur in Sudan due to “ethnically motivated attacks against the Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur groups” by the RSF.
AP, UNICEF, Al Jazeera, Maghrebi.org
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