Ali Kushayb led the Janjaweed, a group whose campaign of terror led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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Nahed was visiting Sudan's capital Khartoum with her family to celebrate Eid, a major Islamic holiday, when the war broke out between the rival armies vying for control of her homeland.
"The RSF's push for the oil refinery it's a geopolitical push to pressure South Sudan."
The conviction was the ICC's first regarding crimes committed in Darfur, a region now suffering new horrors due to war.
On this episode of American Prestige: Mat Nashed on the state of Sudan's ongoing civil war.
A detailed study highlights the military's aerial campaign and how civilians have been its victims.
The drone strikes were blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, extending a pattern of atrocities in Sudan's 2-year civil war.
Heglig is Sudan's largest oil field and also the main processing facility for neighbouring South Sudan's oil exports.
Massacres at the start of the war in Sudan should have shocked the world into action. They didn't.
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) also said today it had taken control of the strategic Heglig oilfield.