Baghdad-INA
Senior United Nations officials have warned that the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in El Fasher are at risk due to ongoing fighting in the western Sudanese city, which is besieged by the Rapid Support Forces, demonstrating their concerns about the escalation of the conflict. in the Darfur region.
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Violent battles were renewed in El Fasher, where the Rapid Support Forces launched an attack to control the city located in the southwest of the country.
El Fasher is the only capital of the five Darfur states that is not under the control of the Rapid Support Forces, although they have been besieging it since May.
Since April 2023, Sudan has seen a raging war between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
The war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions, causing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, according to the United Nations.
In early September, experts at the United Nations Human Rights Council called for the “immediate deployment” of an “independent and impartial” force to protect civilians in Sudan, a proposal rejected by the country’s leaders.
On Tuesday, the President of the United States Joe Biden called on the two parties in the conflict in Sudan to resume negotiations to end the ongoing war between them since April 2023, which has left thousands dead and crushed the country until the famine.
2024-09-23 00:07:30