years old) died instantly, another policeman (Mr. Adil Hamid Mohammed 27 years old) was seriously injured. The third policeman survived the shootings. This case was filed at Kadogli police. The two surviving policemen recognized the RSF soldiers and they were able to tell their names. But, up to the time of publishing this report, police had not arrested any of the perpetrators. Note: The management of Areeba/ MTN company branch use to find their fuel meant for operating its generator stolen, which caused a network disturbance in Kadogli town. For this reason, police guards were placed after the company continuously reported stealing of their fuel. 2.2.16 Murder of a farmer by unknown people in Damba-Kadogli On 24thJune 2020 morning hours, Mr. Nawai Elgaili Nawai (a 58 year old farmer) had gone to cultivate at his farm in Damba5suburb of Kadogli. As his usual routine in the farming season, he could go in the morning and return home by late in the evening, but on 24th June 2020, he did not come back home. The following day (25th June 2020), his family went to the farm looking for him and they found him dead. The dead body was taken by his family to Kadogli hospital for postmortem. The postmortem report indicated that the cause of death was the four (4) bullets in his chest and abdomen. The dead body was buried by his relatives at Kadogli and the murder case was filed against anonymous at Kadogli police. A social activist in Kadogli informed HUDO Centre that, “I suspect Rapid Support Force (RSF) to be the culprits. First of all, apart from security, no one is armed in Kadogli except RSF members. Secondly, since the beginning of this cultivation season, members of RSF repeatedly announced that, they will not allow cultivation this year. So far, recently a number of farmers have been killed at their farms by RSF”. 5 Damba is a periphery suburb in Kadogli town at a distance of six (6) km Northwest Kadoglicentre and closer to Albardab village (the village that was attacked by RSF members in May 2020). 22

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