Activists said over 200 people were killed in a wave of sectarian attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) state-wide in White Nile in the last three days. On Tuesday, activists claimed that violence erupted after RSF members stalled signing a contentious political charter that could have paved the way for a breakaway government.
According to Emergency Lawyers, a civilian rights organization it said RSF militiamen were terrorizing the area around Al-Gitaina before hundreds of civilians had to flee.
“Those crossing the Nile were shot at, at their throats drowning them so that this was intentional genocide,” 
The RSF has been in a near two year war with the Sudanese army and therefore controls most of western Sudan and also parts of Khartoum –> but has been losing ground in Central Sudan.
These incidents in White Nile state underscore the importance of the region as it reacquires territory from the army. Simultaneously in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, RSF is recruiting more support to sign a charter of ‘Government of Peace and Unity’ in an attempt to secure a consolidated rule over their zones.
The fighting has exacerbated an already dire humanitarian situation in Sudan, according to the UN which recently declared it crossing “the very top two worst cases of humanitarian crisis”,
The RSF has been implicated in widespread human rights violations by both the U.S., which alleges it “has purportedly committed crimes against humanity” inside the territory it controls and the International Criminal Court where an arrest warrant for the commander-in-chief is underway.
