The numbers of the war in Sudan after two months of clashes

2023-06-15 08:53:14

Time.news – Today marks two months since the outbreak of the conflict between the regular Sudanese army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR), which respected only one of the more than ten truces agreed in this time frame in which several organizations warn of almost a thousand civilians killed in the clashes.

Dead and wounded

At least 866 people have died and 6,083 others have been injured in Sudan since fighting began between the country’s military and the FAR two months ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Tuesday. The data from the UN agency are updated to 6 June and were provided to the WHO by the Sudanese Ministry of Health, which highlighted the situation in the capital Khartoum: 230 dead and 3,508 injured.

However, these figures differ from those provided yesterday by the Sudanese Doctors Union, which quantified the number of civilians killed at 958 and said that more than 4,746 citizens were injured in this period, although this count does not include “a large number of victims” in the western part of the country.

Displaced persons and refugees

The people who have been forced to flee their homes to leave the violence behind and who, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), number around 2.2 million. Of these, some 1.67 million are internally displaced and have left the capital for other states in search of safety, while another 528,000 people, including refugees, asylum seekers and returnees, have crossed into neighboring countries, according to the United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR).

Sexual assaults

Conflict-related sexual violence is a concern for civil society organisations, which have reported an increase in cases of gender-based violence, particularly sexual violence and abductions of women and girls. On June 9, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirmed at least 12 cases of sexual violence against 37 women since the conflict began in Sudan on April 15, while noting that the figure could be higher. high due to victims’ fear of formally reporting these attacks.

Children without families

Unicef ​​has indicated that more than 13.6 million children are in need of urgent humanitarian aid, while the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned about the plight of homeless children, after more than 280 last week children, aged between 1 and 15, and 70 carers were evacuated from Khartoum’s Maygoma orphanage to Wad Madani, a safer place about 200 kilometers southeast of the capital. Lack of humanitarian aid and medical supplies have claimed the lives of at least 71 children in this state-run orphanage.

Skyrocketing prices

The ongoing fighting in Khartoum and the nearby city of Um Durman has led to a serious shortage of food, medicine and services such as electricity, communications and water, the prices of which have doubled, making access to these supplies even more difficult. In Khartoum, the lack of flour to prepare bread and the lack of petrol for transport have doubled the price of a loaf of bread, while others have chosen to drink the water of the Nile, despite the risk of infection, in the face of a situation that forced others to move to safer areas.