At least 1,000 people were killed in a devastating landslide that wiped out an entire village in Sudan’s Marra Mountains, leaving only one survivor, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) said on Monday.
According to the group, led by Abdelwahid Mohamed Nour, the landslide struck on August 31 following several days of heavy rainfall. In a statement, the movement, which controls the affected area in Darfur, described the scale of the disaster as catastrophic and called on the United Nations and international aid organizations to urgently assist in recovering the bodies of victims, including men, women, and children.
“The village has now been completely leveled to the ground,” the SLM/A said, noting that the survivors and displaced remain in dire need of assistance. Many of the residents had fled to the Marra Mountains to escape the ongoing war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in North Darfur. The two-year conflict has left over half of Sudan’s population facing crisis levels of hunger and displaced millions, with Al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur, still under heavy fire.
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