Baghdad-INA
A senior United Nations official expressed concern on Sunday morning about reports of the use of “heavy weapons” in the fighting in the Sudanese city of El Fasher.
Clementine Nkwita Salami, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, said that civilians were injured and were taken to El Fasher Hospital, while “other civilians found themselves caught in the middle of violent battles while trying to flee” from the city located in the Darfur region.
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The UN official stressed that these acts of violence “threaten the lives of more than 800,000 people living” in the city.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his “deep concern about the ongoing war in Sudan.” “We need an urgent ceasefire and a coordinated international effort to achieve a political process that can put the country back on the right track,” he said in a post on the social networking site “X.”
2024-05-13 09:39:04