West Darfur governor abducted, killed as war in Sudan spreads

A regional governor has been killed after publicly blaming the deaths of civilians on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) amid an expansion of the country’s almost two-month-old war into cities in the west of the country,
West Darfur state governor Khamis Abakar was killed on Wednesday, an armed group he commanded said, hours after he accused the RSF and allied fighters of “genocide“.
Details on his death were unavailable but the Reuters news agency reported that two government sources said the RSF was responsible for the killing.
The Sudanese army also took to social media to accuse the RSF of “kidnapping and assassinating” the governor. The killing had added a “new chapter” to the RSF’s “record of barbaric crimes that it has been committing against all the Sudanese people”, the army said on Facebook, calling the incident a “brutal act”.

Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan reports from Omdurman, across the Nile River from the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

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