2023-09-03 18:11:00
Crossfire from army artillery 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 report.
“Five civilians were killed when rockets fell on their homes in Omdurman”, the northwestern suburb of Khartoum, reports a medical source to AFP.
The “resistance committee” of Kalakla district in Khartoum announced earlier that “the death toll from the air raids on Kalakla (had) climbed to 20 civilian deaths”.
Already on Saturday, this pro-democracy group, which has been organizing mutual aid between residents since the start of the war in April, reported that “11 civilian dead including two children and a woman” were in the morgue of one of the very last hospitals still operational. of the capital, adding that “many bodies charred and shredded by the bombardment” could not be transported there.
The war that broke out on April 15 between the army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (FSR), General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, left 5,000 dead, according to the very assessment. underestimated by the NGO Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (Acled), and 4.8 million displaced persons and refugees, according to the UN.
In Khartoum, the fighting has been concentrated in densely populated neighborhoods where for nearly five months millions of inhabitants have been living to the rhythm of water and electricity cuts, in stifling heat, holed up in their homes to try to protect themselves. crossfire.
Again on Sunday, witnesses told AFP “artillery fire and army rockets on FSR positions” in the northern suburbs of the capital.
More than one in two Sudanese needs humanitarian aid to survive, and six million of them are on the brink of starvation, aid workers warn.
Fighting and hunger now threaten to ‘take away’ Sudan and tip the region into a humanitarian catastrophe, says the UN which has received only a quarter of its funding pledges and faces bureaucratic obstacles to deliver aid.
03/09/2023 18:10:02 – Wad Madani (Soudan) (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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