Sudan is on the verge of a civil warwarned this Sunday the UNa day after dozens of people died in a stroke of the air force in a residential area of Khartoum, the capital.
In a video released by the Khartoum State Health Ministry, bodies appear on the ground, some with mangled limbs, under hastily thrown sheets to cover them. Several of the victims are women.
The shelling took place on Saturday in the Dar Al Salam neighborhood of Omdurman, a northwestern suburb of Khartoum.
According to the Ministry of Health, the attack left 22 dead and a large number of injured among civilians.
For their part, the Rapid Support Forces (FAR), at war with the army since April 15, denounced “The tragic loss of more than 31 lives and many injured.”
In almost three months of war between the FAR paramilitaries, led by General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, and the regular troops of General Abdel Fatah al Burhan, almost 3,000 deaths have been registered, a figure probably underestimated.
Nearly three million Sudanese have been forced to flee their homes, including more than 600,000 who have fled abroad.
Farhan Haq, one of the spokesmen for the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, denounced “a total lack of respect for humanitarian law and human rights”especially in Darfur, a region that already experienced a conflict in the 2000s and is once again the epicenter of fighting
According to the UN, Sudan is now “on the edge of a war Total civilian potentially destabilizing for the entire region”.
Fighting started in the capital but airstrikes and looting have spread to Darfur, as well as Kordofan south of Khartoum and the Blue Nile, which borders Ethiopia to the south.
To try to find a way out of the crisis, the UN and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), a regional body, will organize a meeting on Monday in Ethiopia with the heads of state or government of four countries working for peace. in Sudan (Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan).
Source: AFP
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