Sudan: SPLM-N – Gold Potentially Ignites Fighting in Kauda and Blue Nile

Last Tuesday, a senior military and tribal delegation from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrived in the Nuba Mountains to help mediate deadly internal clashes between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) and local fighters from the Atoro community.

The fighting in Heiban and Kauda and surrounding areas in the Nuba Mountains has killed more than 500 people from the Atoro ethnic group, displaced over 25,000, and burnt dozens of villages, according to local tribal…