The U.N. is warning of “atrocious crimes” in Sudan’s central Gezira state, after reports of mass killings by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. At least 124 civilians were killed by the RSF over the past week, according to on-the-ground reports. The year-and-a-half-long war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced more than 11 million and triggered a devastating humanitarian and health crisis. This is a displaced mother in South Kordofan state whose son died of hunger.

Zaytona Yacoub: “I held him up, and I found his body stiffened. I carried him and ran to my neighbor, and I asked her to have a look at him. She told me, 'Your son is gone.' … He used to tell me, 'When the road to Khartoum opens, we will go back.'”