Sudanese rights organisation Emergency Lawyers said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed nearly 300 civilians during weekend raids on villages in North Kordofan. Fighters reportedly set homes ablaze and shot residents, among them children and pregnant women, in what the group called a "terrible massacre." According to the lawyers’ statement, more than 200 people died in Shag Alnom, 38 were killed in neighbouring settlements and a subsequent attack on Hilat Hamid left at least 46 dead. Separate medical-network tallies put fatalities in the village of Umm Garfa at 48. The UN’s International Organization for Migration estimates the violence has displaced more than 3,000 people from the area around the RSF-held town of Bara. The killings are among the bloodiest attributed to the RSF since it began battling Sudan’s army in April 2023. The conflict between RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and military ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has already caused what the United Nations calls the world’s worst displacement and hunger crisis, leaving at least 40,000 people dead and about 13 million uprooted. The International Criminal Court has opened a new investigation into alleged war crimes in Darfur, and human-rights groups say the latest attacks underscore the need for expanded accountability.