Paramilitary forces suspected in assassination of West Darfur governor

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan have been blamed for the assassination of Khamis Abdallah Abbakar, the governor of West Darfur, who criticised the RSF and described a "genocide". The UN said "compelling eyewitness accounts attribute this act to Arab militias and the RSF". The conflict in Sudan has entered its third month with a reported death toll now above 2,000. The RSF have their origins in the Janjaweed militias which the former authoritarian leader Omar al-Bashir deployed against ethnic minorities in the region in 2003, drawing charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.