The tragic figures of the crisis in Sudan after two months of conflict

This Thursday marks two months since the outbreak of the conflict among the regular army Sudan and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR), that they have only respected one of the more than ten truces agreed at this time in which different organizations warn of almost a thousand civilians killed by the clashes.

These are some keys to understanding the current situation of the African country.

dead and injured

At least 866 people have died and another 6,083 have been injured in Sudan since the start of fighting between the country’s army and the FAR two months ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) said last Tuesday.

The data of the UN agency is updated until June 6 and was provided to the WHO by the Sudanese Ministry of Health, which highlighted the situation in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum: 230 people killed and another 3,508 injured.

On the other hand, these figures are far from those offered yesterday, Wednesday, by the Sudanese Doctors Union, which raised the number of civilian deaths to 958 and noted that more than 4,746 citizens were injured in this period, although this count does not include “a large number of victims” in the west of the country.

Displaced and refugees

Other victims of the conflict are people who have been forced to flee their homes to leave the violence behind and who, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the figure amounts to about 2.2 million citizens.

Of all of them, around 1.67 million people have been internally displaced and left the capital for other states seeking safety; while another 528,000 people, including refugees, asylum seekers and returnees, crossed into neighboring countries, according to data from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

sexual assaults

Conflict-related sexual violence worries civil society organizations, which have denounced an increase in cases of gender-based violence, particularly sexual violence and kidnappings of women and girls.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirmed on June 9 at least 12 cases of sexual violence against 37 women since the conflict began in Sudan on April 15, although it noted that the number could be higher given the fear of the victims to formally denounce these attacks.

children without family

On the other hand, Unicef ​​indicated that more than 13.6 million children need urgent humanitarian aid, while the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned of the situation suffered by minors without families, after last week they evacuated more of 280 children, ages 1 to 15, and 70 caregivers from the Maygoma orphanage in Khartoum to Wad Madani, a safer location some 200 kilometers southeast of the capital.

Precisely, the lack of humanitarian aid and medical supplies caused the death of at least 71 children in this state orphanage.

air prices

The continuous clashes both in Khartoum and in the nearby city of Um Durman have generated a great lack of food, medicine and services such as electricity, communication and water, the prices of which have doubled, making it even more difficult for the population to access these supplies.

Residents of Khartoum said that the lack of flour to prepare bread in bakeries and the lack of gasoline for transport doubled the price of a loaf of bread, while others chose to drink water from the Nile, despite the risk of infections, before the situation that forced others to move to safer areas.

According to OCHA, local markets and the availability of cash have been greatly affected by the conflict. The replenishment of goods after local stocks have been depleted due to tight domestic supplies and disruption to transportation networks remains a concern.

broken truces

Since the outbreak of the conflict, the Sudanese Army and the FAR have agreed to more than a dozen truces sponsored by different international mediators such as South Sudan, which mediated a week-long ceasefire, and Saudi Arabia and the United States, who are conducting a round of proxy peace talks in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

However, of all the agreed humanitarian pauses, the warring parties only fully respected the last 24-hour pause that took place between last Saturday and Sunday.

Source: EFE