The ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, “risks a catastrophic conflagration within Sudan that could engulf the whole region and beyond.”
According to Sudan’s health ministry, more than 500 people have died and more than 4,000 have been injured in the conflict.
Written by Chris Muhizi Minembwe Capital News 2:00pm Nairobi Time.
A number of brief cease-fires have not held, and the military has kept up its barrage of airstrikes on Khartoum in an effort to weaken the RSF.
Fighting has also been intense in western Sudan’s Darfur region.
Olga Sarrado, a spokeswoman for the UN agency for refugees, told journalists in Geneva that the number of 100,000 includes persons from Sudan, South Sudanese citizens going back home, and those who were already refugees within Sudan escaping the conflict.
Additionally, refugees have been crossing the border between Sudan and Chad and Egypt in the north.
The majority of European nations have finished evacuating their citizens, but on Tuesday, Russia announced that it was sending four military aircraft to transport out more than 200 individuals from Sudan, including its citizens and those from “friendly countries.”
Food, water, and electricity are in limited availability in Khartoum, but because to the unrest, vital supplies that were shipped by the UN to Port Sudan are being stored.
Ahmed al-Mandhari, regional director for the World Health Organization (WHO), claimed that Khartoum’s health institutions have been attacked and some are being used as military outposts.
“Around 26 such attacks on healthcare facilities have been documented thus far. Healthcare professionals and patients in these hospitals were killed in some of these strikes, he told the BBC.
He said, “You also know that some of these hospitals are used as military outposts, and they have thrown the employees and patients out of these medical centers.
Abdou Dieng, the UN’s Sudan Humanitarian Coordinator, warned on Monday that more than two weeks of destructive violence might turn the
Ahmed al-Mandhari, regional director for the World Health Organization (WHO), claimed that Khartoum’s health institutions have been attacked and some are being used as military outposts.
“Around 26 such attacks on healthcare facilities have been documented thus far. Healthcare professionals and patients in these hospitals were killed in some of these strikes, he told the BBC.
He said, “You also know that some of these hospitals are used as military outposts, and they have thrown the employees and patients out of these medical centers.
Abdou Dieng, the UN’s Sudan Humanitarian Coordinator, warned on Monday that more than two weeks of destructive violence might turn the
Humanitarian problems in the nation ran the potential to grow into a “full blown catastrophe.”
One-third of Sudan’s population, or around 16 million people, already need humanitarian aid before the present crisis. “Around 3.7 million people had already experienced internal migration, primarily in Darfur,” he said.
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