More than half of Sudan’s population needs humanitarian aid to survive and six million people are on the brink of starvation, aid groups warn
Crossfire between the armed forces and paramilitaries killed five civilians in Khartoum on Sunday, a day after 20 others, including two children, were killed in an airstrike, a doctor and activists said.
“Five civilians were killed when rockets hit their homes in Omdurman,” a northwestern suburb of the Sudanese capital, an AFP medical source said.
The “committee of resistance” in Khartoum’s Kalakla district said earlier that the death toll of the airstrikes there last Saturday “increased to 20 dead civilians”.
The organization that fights for democracy and since the outbreak of the war organizes mutual aid initiatives among the residents initially spoke of “11 dead civilians, among them two children and a woman”, who were taken to the mortuary of a hospital, one of the last still operating in the Sudanese capital, adding that “many bodies were charred and dismembered” and it was impossible to transport them.
The power struggle that broke out on April 15 between General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the armed forces and de facto president of the country after his coup 2021, it has claimed the lives of some 5,000 people, according to the most recent estimate – which is greatly underestimated – by the non-governmental organization ACLED, while turning 4.8 million others into refugees and internally displaced persons, according to the UN.
In the country’s capital, hostilities are concentrated in densely populated districts, where for nearly five months millions of residents have lived through water and electricity cuts in sweltering heat, holed up in their homes to protect themselves from crossfire.
Yesterday, eyewitnesses told AFP that the army hit “with artillery and rockets DTY positions” in northern districts of Khartoum.
More than half of Sudan’s population needs humanitarian aid to survive and six million people are on the brink of starvation, aid groups have warned.
War and famine now threaten to “overwhelm” Sudan and plunge the wider region into a humanitarian disaster, the UN says, facing funding shortfalls and bureaucratic obstacles to aid distribution.
Source :Skai
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