More than a thousand people were killed after a catastrophic landslide wiped out an entire village in Sudan’s Marra Mountains, multiple news outlets reported Monday.
The disaster struck on August 31 following days of relentless rainfall. The landslide flattened the village, leaving just one known survivor, according to a statement released Monday by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A).
“The village has now been completely leveled to the ground,” the group said.
The SLM/A, led by Abdelwahid Mohamed Nour, has called on the United Nations and international aid agencies to intervene and help recover the bodies of the dead — among them, men, women, and children, CNN reports.
The victims had fled to the Marra Mountains to escape the escalating war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The area, remote and severely under-resourced, offered little in the way of safety or sustenance — just fragile hope for people running from bullets and bombs.
Now, it’s become their grave.
The ongoing civil war, now in its second year, has battered the country and displaced millions. Food and medicine are scarce. Hunger has reached crisis levels for over half the population. Meanwhile, the capital of North Darfur state, Al-Fashir, remains under fire.
This latest tragedy adds another grim chapter to Sudan’s unraveling — a war-torn nation where the ground itself now joins the list of enemies.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
