2023-04-19 18:05:55
The toll is still provisional and already more than 270 civilians have been killed since Saturday in Sudan. Western embassies in Khartoum explain that it is impossible to provide a definitive assessment as long as access is cut in the capital without electricity and to ravaged hospitals.
“The toll is high” and the belligerents must “cease hostilities immediately and unconditionally” after five days of “attacks targeting civilians, diplomats and humanitarian workers”, adds the press release from the 15 embassies, including the United States. , the European Union and Norway – traditionally to the diplomatic maneuver in Sudan.
Bombed out hospitals
Air force and artillery from both sides shelled nine hospitals in Khartoum. In all, 39 out of 59 hospitals in the areas affected by the fighting have been disabled or forced to close, doctors report. As for food stocks, already limited in a country with triple-digit inflation, they are running out and no supply truck has entered Khartoum since Saturday.
In a country of 45 million inhabitants where hunger affects more than a third of the population, humanitarians and diplomats say they can no longer work: three employees of the World Food Program (WFP) were killed in Darfur (west) and the UN denounces “looting, attacks and sexual violence against humanitarian workers”. To flee the violence, thousands of women and children took the road on Wednesday to the provinces bordering Khartoum, according to witnesses.
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