“You Nuba are slaves to the Arabs,” they said. “We do not want the ‘Zurga’61 We must kill you and throw your bodies in the dump (the garbage site) or into the sewage wells like dogs.” They ordered me to lie on the ground. One of them put the muzzle of his rifle against my neck while another fired a shot near my head, saying: “You Nuba are dogs, you must die.” He said: “people like you; we kill them, we do not bury them; and throw them to the dogs.” While I was lying on the ground, they fired another shot which hit my left arm, and then they left. I was later taken to the hospital by one of RSF soldiers (on humanitarian ground), and that’s how I managed to leave that place. I later joined my family and on 18th April 2025, we came to Uganda via South Sudan and now we are at Kiryandongo refugee settlement.”62 Kaka, 57 years, from Nuba Mountains. She was health worker. When the armed conflict started on April 2023 she was in Khartoum. “On 25th April 2023, I travelled from Khartoum to Muglad where I used to work. As we approached Dilling city, at RSF checkpoint, one armed soldier putting kadmoul came toward us, he ordered all passengers to disembark and then said: “You claim this vehicle carries only people from the Misseriya tribe63, but here is a Nuba woman!” He pulled me out of the vehicle, causing me to fall on my back, and began beating me with a whip, while other soldiers shouting: “Kill this Khadim/slave!’’. One of the passengers - a man from the Misseriya tribe - intervened and said: “Why are you beating this woman? She is old enough to be your mother. Leave her; she is with us, and we are all Misseriya.” The soldier then backed off, and they left me. We arrived in Muglad the same day. I returned to my work at Muglad hospital, where RSF began bringing their wounded soldiers for treatment. We used to work under threat and insults to treat them, this situation compelled me to resign from the hospital and move to work at a private clinic. However, my work at the clinic lasted only a few days, as RSF members also started bringing their wounded soldiers there, I was repeatedly threatened, insulted for my ethnicity, called “khadim/slave”, and heard them telling their members in my presence: “Surround this slave; don’t let her escape.”. A derogatory term used to denote a black Darfuri individual, though it is currently used to denote a black person in Sudan generally. 62 Interview with Kafi on 12th September 2025 Kiryandongo refugee settlement, Uganda. 63 Misseriya is an Arab tribe of Kordufan. 61 30