A rebel group in Darfur says a landslide buried the village of Tarasin, killing nearly all its residents. Only one survivor has been found as Sudan’s humanitarian catastrophe deepens.
A massive landslide in Sudan’s Marra Mountains has destroyed a village, killing more than 1,000 people. The disaster comes amid Sudan’s civil war and famine in Darfur.
Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region has been struck by a catastrophe of biblical scale. A landslide in the Marra Mountains leveled the village of Tarasin, killing more than 1,000 people, according to the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), which controls the area. Only one survivor has been found alive.
The rebel movement described the village as “completely leveled to the ground,” with days of relentless rain turning the mountainside into an avalanche of mud and rock. The group is pleading for urgent international intervention, saying it lacks even the basic means to recover bodies.
The tragedy is compounded by the backdrop: Sudan is entering its third year of brutal civil war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Millions are displaced, famine stalks Darfur, and aid corridors are blocked by fighting. Many of Tarasin’s residents had fled here seeking refuge from war, only to be buried alive by nature’s fury.
For the United Nations and international agencies, this disaster is more than an emergency—it is a death knell for a region already on the brink of collapse. Food is scarce, medicine is nearly gone, and now an entire community has been erased.
In Sudan, the line between war and disaster no longer exists. Humanitarian collapse, famine, and natural catastrophe all strike at once. The Marra Mountains tragedy is not an isolated event but part of a broader nightmare: a state shattered by war, and a people left defenseless against both man-made and natural destruction.
Darfur’s soil is soaked in blood. Now, it is burying the living.
