2023-09-03 14:40:20
He Army bombed paramilitary positions this Sunday in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, hours after 20 civilians, two of them children, were killed in a air strike against a Residential arearesidents and activists reported. “The balance of the aerial bombardments in the Kalakla neighborhood rose to 20 dead civilians,” the “resistance committee” of that district, one of the pro-democracy groups who, since the conflict began in April, have put systems in place to help their neighbors.
On Saturday, this committee reported that “11 civilians killedincluding two children and a woman” were in the morgue of one of the last hospitals still in operation in the capital. According to the source, “many bodies, burned and dismembered by the bombardment,” could not be transported to those establishments .
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The war, which broke out on April 15 between the army, led by General Abdul Fatah al Burhanand the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (FAR)of the general Mohamed Hamdan Daglohas already left 5.000 muertosaccording to the balance -very underestimated- of the NGO Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (Acled), and 4.8 million displaced persons and refugees according to the UN.
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On Sunday, several witnesses told AFP that “army artillery and rocket shots were fired at FAR positions” on the northern outskirts of the capital. In Khartoum, fighting is concentrated in densely populated neighborhoodswhere for almost five months Millions of residents deal with water and electricity cuts and sweltering heat on a daily basis, trapped inside their homes to try to protect themselves from shootings.
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