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2020 Darfur attacks

Part of the War in Darfur

Location of Darfur (light green) and the rest of Sudan

(pale yellow)

Location Darfur, Sudan

Date 12–26 July 2020

Attack type Mass shootings

Deaths >89

Injured >102

Motive Land conflicts relating to farming rights

The 2020 Darfur attacks were three mass shootings that occurred in July 2020 in Darfur,
Sudan. Sudan's leadership and the joint United Nations and African Union mission in Darfur
(UNAMID) have connected the massacres to land conflicts relating to farming rights, typically
between non-Arab tribal farmers, such as the Masalit people, and Arab Bedouin tribes,[1] whom
the government believes to be the attackers.[2]
Contents
• 1 Background
• 2 Attacks
o 2.1 12 July: Kutum, North Darfur
o 2.2 24 July: Aboudos, South Darfur
o 2.3 25–26 July: Masteri, West Darfur
• 3 See also
• 4 References

Background
Since 2003, a civil war has been taking place in Darfur, in the west of Sudan. During the
violence, various ethnic groups were driven out of their land. Other people moved in and took
over the land; in the 2010s, the original landowners returned and contested ownership.[citation
needed]

According to reports by Radio Dabanga, an allegedly independent radio station and news
source:[3]

"The Unregistered Lands Act of 1970 entitled the government to use force in safeguarding land
and encouraging the accumulation of land by a minority of rich investors (local or foreign),
causing the alienation of agro-pastoralists from their traditional homelands and denying any
formal legitimacy or juridical status to traditional property rights."[4]

Farming in the region largely ceased during the conflict, and in early 2020 the Sudanese
government intervened to return land to its original owners.[5][6][7][4]

Attacks
12 July: Kutum, North Darfur

On 12 July 2020, at least 9 people were killed and 20 injured in an armed attack on protesters
carried out by unidentified armed militiamen riding motorbikes, camels and horses in the Fata
Borno area of the Kutum locality, in North Darfur. The government, in reaction, decided to
impose a state of emergency throughout the state. The witnesses further stated that the militias
used light and heavy weapons and looted the town's market, after the withdrawal of the police
forces.[8]

24 July: Aboudos, South Darfur

On 24 July 2020, gunmen stormed the village of Aboudos in South Darfur, Sudan, according to
local tribal leaders.[9][5] The attack left at least 20 people dead and another 22 were injured.[6] The
victims included children, according to Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. He connected the
violence to farmers in the area returning to their fields, and pledged to send troops to Darfur to
"protect citizens and the farming season".[10] These troops would be spread across all of the
Darfur region, and consist of both police and military units.[10]

25–26 July: Masteri, West Darfur

On 25 and 26 July 2020, another massacre occurred in West Darfur involving around 500
gunmen who attacked Masteri near Beida, a Masalit community, killing more than 60 people.[5]
Masteri is a border village with Chad.[11] The United Nations (UN) said that another 60 people
were injured in the attack, and that the attackers also looted and burned down villages.[12] A UN
statement said it was "one of the latest of a series of security incidents reported over the last
week", saying other communities in the region had been destroyed[5] and reporting at least seven
deadly attacks in West Darfur since 19 July.[11] The UN have suggested the conflict relates to
disputes over land ownership: after displacement in Darfur in the early 2000s, groups took over
abandoned land. In recent years, persecuted groups have attempted to return to their land. No
group has claimed the attacks.[7]

See also
• 2008 attack on Omdurman and Khartoum
• 2010 South Darfur clash

References
1.

• "Sudan deploys security forces after 120 dead, injured in attack in Darfur". Middle East Monitor. 28
July 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
• • Soudan : le gouvernement envoie l'armée au Darfour en proie à une flambée de violences [Sudan:
the government sends the Army to Darfur after an eruption of violences] (in French), France TV info,
Khartoum veut stopper les milices arabes proches de l'ancien président Omar el-Béchir qui terrorisent les
populations dans l'ouest du pays [Cartum wants to stop the arab militias aligned with the old president
Omar el Bechir who are terrorizing the West of the country.

• • "About us | Radio Dabanga". www.dabangasudan.org. Retrieved 29 July 2020.

• • "Unamid conference addresses land ownership in Darfur". Radio Dabanga. Retrieved 28 July 2020.

• • "Sudan sending troops to Darfur after 60 killed". 27 July 2020.

• • "Gunmen kill at least 22 villagers in South Darfur, locals say". 25 July 2020 – via Reuters.

• • "Sudan to send more troops to Darfur after attacks". BBC News. 27 July 2020. Retrieved 27 July
2020.

• • UN condemns deadly violence in Sudan's North Darfur

• • "Attackers kill at least 20 in Sudan's Darfur, says tribal chief". Al Jazeera English. 25 July 2020.
• • "Sudan to deploy troops to Darfur after killings: PM Hamdok". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 27 July
2020.

• • "Dozens killed in renewed violence in Sudan's Darfur: UN". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 27 July
2020.

12. • Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com). "More than 60 killed in fresh attacks in Sudan's Darfur region
| DW | 27.07.2020". DW.COM.

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• 2020 mass shootings in Africa

• 2020 murders in Sudan
• 21st-century mass murder in Africa
• Arson in Africa
• Arson in the 2020s
• Attacks on buildings and structures in 2020
• Attacks on buildings and structures in Africa
• July 2020 crimes
• July 2020 events in Africa
• Massacres in 2020
• Massacres in Sudan
• North Darfur
• Robberies in Africa
• South Darfur
• Terrorist incidents in Africa in 2020
• Terrorist incidents in Sudan
• War in Darfur
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