protests after the murder of scores of people in Sudan

Social media users have shared videos of remains prepared for a mass burial.

In a massacre in a central Sudanese community, at least 150 people are said to have died. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary organization opposed to the army, is being held responsible.

For almost 13 months, the adversaries have been engaged in a war for supremacy in the nation. The RSF bragged of striking two army locations on Thursday, but it has not responded to the claims.

Following Wednesday's operation, footage from Wad al-Nourah in Gezira state went viral on social media, showing scores of dead readied for burial in white shrouds.

The activists in that video are members of a neighborhood resistance committee, which is a nationwide network of local organizations supporting the restoration of civilian authority.

"We are currently waiting for a confirmed toll of the dead and injured," said the Madani Resistance Committee. The exact circumstances behind the deaths are yet unknown, however it is said that the RSF fighters raided the settlement twice on Wednesday.

Leading human rights organization Justice Africa Sudan's Hafiz Mohammed told the BBC that although there are still a lot of unaccounted-for deaths, "RSF elements are still around the area looting," making it "difficult to count all the dead." The Wad al-Nourah incident should be condemned internationally, according to the military administration of Sudan. The RSF has been accused of committing many atrocities against residents in Gezira state, which is south of Khartoum, after taking control of the area in December. The RSF disputes these accusations.

In the meanwhile, fierce fighting between the RSF and the military is still going on in El Fasher, a city in the western Darfur region of the nation. Since the battle began in April 2023, there are said to have been over 15,000 fatalities nationwide. The conflict started when the two generals in charge of the army and RSF fell out, and several rounds of peace negotiations have failed to bring an end to it. According to UN agencies, the violence has caused the worst displacement disaster in history, and as a consequence, millions of people are suffering starvation.

Up to five million people are most likely at danger of starvation, according to remarks made this week by Martin Griffiths, the UN's undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs. "It seems that this many people have ever been in danger of starvation," he said, adding, "this was an avoidable conflict." According to Mr. Griffiths, "it is a place where two men concluded they were going to take their country down and overcome their differences through fighting."