About 1,000 dead as the landslide destroyed almost an entire village in Sudan

A landslide has killed at least 1,000 people in the remote mountains of Marqa in western Sudan, according to the rebel group Movement/The Sudan Liberation Army.

Days of heavy rain caused the landslides Sunday, which left only one survivor and <x0...crashed” most of the village of Tarasin, the group said in a statement.

The movement has called for humanitarian aid from the United Nations and other regional and international organisations, the BBC writes.

Many residents from the state of Darfur North had sought refuge in the Marqa Mountains region, as the war between the Sudanese Army and the Fast Support paramilitary Forces (RSF) forced them to flee their homes, Telegraph broadcast Periscope reports.

Darfur Governor, linked to the military, Minni Minnawi, called the landslide a “humanitarian tragedy”.

The civil war that erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and RSF has plunged the country into hunger and has led to genocide charges in the western region of Darfur.

Estimates of the death toll from civil war vary significantly, but an American official last year estimated that as many as 150,000 people had been killed since the beginning of the hostilities in 2023. Some 12 million have left their homes.

The factions of the Sudan Liberation Army Movement, which controls the area where the landslide occurred, have pledged to fight alongside the Sudanese army against RSF.

Many residents of Darfur believe RSF and Allied militia have waged a war aimed at transforming the ethnically mixed region into an Arab-dominated territory.