By Mark Ogagan
At least 1,000 people were killed in Sudan’s western Darfur region after a landslide destroyed an entire village in the Marra Mountains on Sunday, leaving only one survivor.
The Sudan Liberation Movement Army, which controls the village in the Darfur region has pleaded to the UN and other international organisations to help recover the bodies of the victims, which included children.
“Initial information indicates the death of all village residents, estimated to be more than 1,000 individuals, with only one survivor,” said the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, the rebel group which controls the village.
The group said in a statement on Monday that the landslide completely levelled the village to the ground, following days of heavy rainfall.
The tragedy adds to what the UN described as one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, largely man-made, after Sudan was plunged into a brutal civil war, currently in its third year. Famine has already been declared in several parts of the Darfur region.
Fighting in the region has escalated dramatically in recent months, particularly al-Fasher, which has been under siege by the RSF, as it seeks to capture the strategic city, the last major area held by the army in the region.
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