Inside the Nuba Mountains and the alliance reshaping Sudan’s civil war | Sudan war

For people previously targeted by the RSF, it is hard to square the brutal past with the current reality which came only shortly after the RSF carried out a campaign of indiscriminate killing in the Nuba Mountains.

Many witnesses or victims of those massacres live in displacement camps across the Nuba.

Huda Hamid Ahmad, a 31-year-old mother of seven, arrived at al-Hilu camp in September 2024, months after fleeing a brutal attack by RSF forces on her hometown of Habila that January.

“They came to the homes, torturing, looting, and threatening to kill your children,” Huda said, recalling…