According to Sudanese authorities, at least 512 people have been killed since the conflict began, but the toll is likely much higher.
Absolute chaos reigns in the Sudan for the 13th day where, in addition to heavy fighting going on in Khartoum and Darfur despite a ceasefire between the start and the paramilitary organization Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – residents are facing looting, killings and house burnings.
In the capital Khartoum and in the Darfur region where shelling continues despite a ceasefire.
Warplanes fly over the northern suburbs of Khartoum, where the armies of the two rival generals, fighting for power, exchange machine gun and heavy weapons fire.
The violence claimed the lives of eight people yesterday alone, according to the doctors’ union.
The situation in Khartoum is “extremely bad”, Shaaban, a Syrian national waiting in Port Sudan to leave the country, told AFP: “All we want is to arrive safely in Jeddah (in Saudi Arabia) or Syria. All we want is to leave Sudan.”
Apart from the capital, violence has been noted since the beginning of the conflict in other regions, mainly in the West Darfur.
According to the UN, looting, killings and house burnings have occurred in El-Geneina, the largest city in this region which borders Chad.
According to the Sudanese Ministry of Health, at least 512 people have been killed and 4,193 injured since the start of the conflict, but the toll is likely much higher.
Failure to truce
A 72-hour ceasefire was agreed under the auspices of the United States and Saudi Arabia and came into effect yesterday, Tuesday. However, numerous attempts to silence the guns have failed since the start of the conflict on April 15 between the armed forces of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the DTY of General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as “Khemidi”.
Yesterday, Wednesday evening, the army announced that it had agreed to send a representative to Juba, the capital of neighboring South Sudan, for talks with the DTI “at the initiative of IGAD”, the East African regional coalition.
General Burhan said he had agreed to discuss an extension of the 72-hour ceasefire, which is set to expire at midnight today and was generally not well respected.
The paramilitaries, for their part, did not comment on this regional initiative.
Source :Skai
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