Volunteers said on Thursday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have transferred dozens of detainees from West Kordofan to Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.

The RSF is holding more than 19,000 people, including 5,000 civilians, in detention centres in Nyala, which it has designated as the headquarters for its parallel government. Reports indicate several deaths within these facilities due to hunger, torture, and medical neglect.

The Dar Hamar Emergency Room stated in a press release that the RSF militia transferred approximately 40 forcibly detained young men from Al-Nuhud in West Kordofan to Nyala. It noted that these youths were abducted from various areas across West Kordofan State.

The emergency room expressed deep concern for the remaining detainees with whom communication has been severed, noting that it lacks information regarding their status and cannot rule out the possibility of their execution within the detention centres.

The RSF controls all of West Kordofan, where it periodically launches attacks on villages for the purpose of looting, while arresting and torturing anyone who objects to these acts.

A member of the Dar Hamar Emergency Room told Sudan Tribune that the RSF attack on the areas of Um Jak and Jadallah on Wednesday was accompanied by a wide-scale campaign of random arrests against local residents. He described these practices as part of a systematic pattern involving the kidnapping of civilians and enforced disappearances.

He further spoke of RSF elements bargaining with citizens for financial ransoms in exchange for the release of their relatives, emphasizing that this represents a direct targeting of the security, lives, and livelihoods of the population in those regions.

The Greater Kordofan region, which comprises three states, has become a primary focal point of the conflict in Sudan, particularly following the RSF’s capture of El Fasher in North Darfur on October 26.