SAF warplanes attack herds of nomads
Pastoralists targeted for allegedly supporting the RSF in Blue Nile and Sennar
The Sudanese military aviation attacked herds of livestock owned by the Fulani, Ambororo, and Rufaa tribes in Blue Nile and Sennar, causing heavy losses of between 3500-4000 head of cattle, cows, sheep and goats, according to a local civil activist.
Videos showed the death of large numbers of livestock in the Bout border area with South Sudan.Such aerial attacks could be considered a war crime targeting pastoralists to exterminate or impoverish them.
Additionally, source reported attacks by troops on these communities. Mahjoub Bakhit Al-Naeem, a displaced person from the Dontai area, reported that the army forcibly displaced them from their areas according to ethnic classification. He is from the Rufaa Warrap tribe and a family of seven individuals. They were displaced after their homes and properties were burned, even food supplies, saying, “This prompted me to move to the safe areas in Al-Mazmoum on an arduous journey, and from there we headed to the city of Renk in South Sudan.”
Another source, Umm Nona, that she and her family were beaten and insulted by the Sudanese army, which classified them as Rapid Support Forces, and that the army forces burned their homes and displaced them. She lost all her possessions and is now displaced on the borders of the Goz Fami area.
The activist blamed these violations SAF troops, allied SPLM-North troops led by Malik Agar, allied Islamist brigades, and Central Reserve Police, known as ‘Abu Tira’. The source said the Abu Tira carried out the fiercest and most brutal attacks on the shepherds' areas and villages.
He said that civilians were targeted in the villages of Al-Dali, Al-Mazmoum, Jariwa, Roro, Wad al-Nil, al-Qarbin, and Guli in the pastoral areas of western Sennar and Blue Nile states. Houses were burned, young men and women were killed, and crops and grain stories were burned and looted.
Some incidents were documented by videos, such as an airstrike in Abu Hujar.
Additionally, some leaders of these tribes were targeted for arrest, such as Mek Al-Walid Nael Mak Hassan Adlan, who was detained by the military intelligence of the 17th Infantry Division based in Sinja.
Refugees fled to the border area between Sudan and South Sudan, specifically Bout, Jarbana, Goz Fami, and Renk in Upper Nile State. Some of them crossed the border and yet were not spared from the air attacks. South Sudanese officials have reported airstrikes within their territory, corroborating reports by the pastoralists.