At least 528 people are killed and another 4,599 injured in fighting in Sudan

2023-04-29 16:35:39

At least 528 people have died and more than 4,500 have been injured by the clashes that began exactly two weeks ago between the Sudanese Army and the powerful paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR), reported this Saturday the Ministry of Health Sudanese in a statement.

“The cumulative total of injured is 4,599 and 528 deaths have been registered in all the hospitals in the different states of Sudan,” the department said, noting that these numbers were counted between the first day of fighting, April 15, and up to Thursday, April 27.

The Ministry indicated that the death toll could be much higher due to the impossibility of medical equipment access to the most violent areas and because most of the hospitals in the states where the fighting is taking place have been put out of service.

He also pointed out that in most Sudanese states there is a “relative calm” except for the capital Jartumand in Western Darfur, in western Sudan and where the conflict is taking on tribal and ethnic overtones.

The upsurge in violence in Western Darfur, according to the Ministry of Health, has caused “the destruction of the main hospital in El Geneina”, the capital of this troubled state, where in just two days, between April 24 and 25, the Sudanese Doctors Union reported that more than 70 people had been killed.

The ministry assured that it has set up health centers in Khartoum and that “communication with hospitals has improved”, where a total of 54 surgeries have been performed in recent days, despite the pressing shortage of medical material and supplies in the country.

Sudan today entered the third week of clashes between the Army and the FAR, despite the extension of a 72 hour truce that has not been respected at any time but has allowed the evacuations of foreigners and the displacement of the civilian population to safer areas.

According to figures from the United Nations and other institutions, since last 15 about 50,000 people have fled from Sudanese territory to neighboring countries, mainly towards Chad, South Sudan and Egypt.