Sudan sentences RSF chief Hemedti to death: Who’s he, what’s he accused of?
Recent attention has focused on el-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state about 360km (224 miles) southwest of Khartoum, where the RSF has massed forces around one of the army’s most strategically important strongholds in southwestern Sudan.
The court, sitting in the army-controlled city of Port Sudan, also sentenced 15 other senior figures of the RSF, a paramilitary group locked in a war with the Sudanese army since 2023, to death over the same crimes.
In the western region of Darfur, the RSF and its allied militias were accused of ethnically targeted killings, sexual violence, looting and mass displacements of non-Arab communities, particularly the Massalit in and around el-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state.
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