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Sudan: paramilitary forces blamed for assassination of West Darfur governor

Khamis Abdallah Abbakar was murdered hours after criticising Rapid Support Forces on television

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been blamed for the assassination and mutilation of a senior government official, amid growing reports of mass killings in the restive Darfur region in the country’s devastating war.

Khamis Abdallah Abbakar, the governor of West Darfur, was murdered this week just hours after he gave an interview to a Saudi-owned TV station in which he criticised the RSF and described a “genocide”.


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