A landslide buries an entire village and kills more than a thousand people in Sudan.

BarcelonaA "massive and devastating" landslide has killed more than 1,000 people living in Tarsin, a small village in western Sudan that has been completely buried, according to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, a rebel group that controls parts of the Darfur region in the west of the country.

The landslide occurred on Sunday after several days of heavy rains and completely devastated this town located in the Marra Mountains, the highest in Sudan. "Initial information indicates the death of all residents of the village, estimated to be more than 1,000 people, with only one survivor," the group announced in a statement, and has called on the United Nations to help recover the bodies of the victims, including "men, women and children."

This mountainous area has become a forced refuge for many residents of the Darfur region, one of the hardest hit by the earthquake. the war that lasts more than two yearsSudan is suffering one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, a result of fighting between the country's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023. Officially, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement remains neutral in the fighting between the RSF, the highest in the country.

Darfur's military-aligned governor, Minni Minnawi, has called the detachment a "humanitarian tragedy that goes beyond the region's borders." "We call on international humanitarian organizations to urgently intervene and provide support and assistance at this critical time, as the tragedy is greater than our people can bear alone," he said in a statement. However, much of Darfur, including the area where the detachment occurred, is inaccessible due to ongoing fighting.

The world's largest humanitarian crisis

The war in Sudan erupted after the alliance between the army and the paramilitary SRF was shattered in April 2023. The country had been mired in severe instability for a year and a half following a coup carried out jointly by the two leaders, now feuding, to end a transition through protests.

The war has devastated the country's infrastructure and created what the UN describes as the world's largest humanitarian crisis. Tens of thousands of people have died and nearly 13 million people have been forced to flee their homes, the largest number of displaced people on the planet. Since the army regained control of the capital, Khartoum, last March, The epicenter of the war has shifted to Darfur., where there is a serious hunger crisis due to the lack of access to humanitarian aid.