🇸🇩 Sudan:When Ethnicity Becomes a Target.

🇸🇩 Sudan:When Ethnicity Becomes a Target.

A Crime Against Humanity Hidden in Plain Sight.

Sudan’s war is no longer a simple struggle for political control.Beneath the surface, a darker reality is unfolding the deliberate targeting of non-Arab African ethnic groups in Darfur, especially the Masalit, Fur, and Zaghawa.This is not random violence.It is structural, racial, and systematic.

Ethnic Targeting:What the Evidence Shows

A United Nations panel of independent sanctions monitors reported that 10,000–15,000 people were killed in El Geneina, West Darfur, between April and June 2023 alone. The violence was described as “widespread, coordinated, and ethnically driven,” with the Masalit community specifically targeted by the RSF and allied Arab militias.
(Source: UN Sanctions Monitor Report, Jan 2024, via Al Arabiya English)
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/01/20/Ethnic-killings-in-one-Sudan-city-left-up-to-15-000-dead-UN-report

The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) further confirms that RSF operations have repeatedly targeted non-Arab “African” ethnic groups throughout Darfur, warning that these actions “may amount to ethnic cleansing or genocide.”
(EUAA Country Guidance: Sudan, June 2025)
https://euaa.europa.eu/country-guidance-sudan/311-non-arabsafricans-darfur

These ethnic groups, Masalit, Fur, and Zaghawa, make up two-thirds to three-quarters of Darfur’s population.
(EUAA, 2025)
https://euaa.europa.eu/country-guidance-sudan/311-non-arabsafricans-darfur

This makes the attacks not only brutal, but an assault on the demographic heart of Darfur.

A Pattern of Ethnic Cleansing

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International analysis (satellite images + eyewitness testimony) show entire non-Arab neighbourhoods burned to the ground.Bodies were left in the streets for days.Houses belonging to Arab groups were left standing.Doctors Without Borders (MSF) field teams reported survivors saying they were attacked explicitly because they were African.
(MSF Report, June 2024)
https://www.msf.org/sudan

One MSF coordinator stated:

> “The attacks are so systematic and so focused on one ethnic group that there’s no question this is targeted violence.”

This is the definition of persecution.

The Crisis Continues Into 2025

In September 2025, the UN Human Rights Office documented 3,384 civilian killings in just six months (Jan–June 2025).Most occurred in Darfur and Kordofan again, overwhelmingly affecting non-Arab African groups.
(UN Human Rights – Sudan Report, Sept 2025)
https://sudan.un.org/en/301876-sudan-crisis-deepens-amid-rising-civilian-casualties-growing-ethnic-violence-and-grim

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The UN also warned that “entrenched impunity” is fueling the violence.

(UN Human Rights, March 2024)
https://sudan.un.org/en/289505-entrenched-impunity-fuelling-gross-human-rights-violations-and-abuses.

The World’s Silence:Selective Outrage

Despite being the largest displacement crisis in the world today, with over 9 million Sudanese displaced, Sudan receives a fraction of the attention given to other conflicts.
(UNHCR Data Portal, 2025)
https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/sudan

Why does the world mobilize rapidly for some tragedies but ignores Africa’s?

The death of a child in El Geneina is no less tragic than the death of a child anywhere else, yet global outrage remains painfully uneven.

Justice Is Not Optional

The International Criminal Court already issued arrest warrants for Darfur atrocities in the past.The evidence today demands renewed action.

Sudan’s non-Arab African communities Masalit, Fur, Zaghawa are not collateral damage.They are targeted victims of racial persecution.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Conclusion:When Ethnicity Becomes a Target, Humanity Is Under Attack

Sudan’s suffering is not just Sudan’s burden.It is a mirror held up to the world.

If this level of killing happened in Europe or the Middle East, global intervention would have been immediate.But African suffering is often greeted with silence, hesitation, or excuses.

History will judge the perpetrators, but it will also judge the bystanders.

The people of Darfur deserve justice.
They deserve recognition.
They deserve a world that refuses to look away.