Dozens killed in rebel attacks on Sudan’s Kordofan, medical group says

Sudan Doctors Network says SPLM-N rebels killed 27 people in South Kordofan, including four children. A medical organisation has accused a Sudanese rebel group aligned with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of killing 27 people, including four children, in the southern province of South Kordofan. In a statement on Tuesday, the Sudan Doctors Network said the killings were carried out by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-N) in Qardud and Abu Hamama, areas inhabited by the Otoro tribe in South Kordofan. “The attacks resulted in a large wave of displacement among citizens towards the Abu Hitan area and Kadugli,” it said. Targeting unarmed civilians on ethnic grounds constitutes a “clear violation of international humanitarian law”, the group added, warning that continued violations threatened to turn “the conflict in South Kordofan into a broader ethnic conflict”. The SPLM-N is a breakaway faction of the SPLM, the ruling party of neighbouring South Sudan.

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