Thousands flee Sudan village after attack

PORT SUDAN: Thousands of families have fled a village in Sudan's North Darfur state, the United Nations said on Monday, after an attack blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. 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. 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. — AFP