2023-06-25 11:21:47
Witnesses said that the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, witnessed today, Sunday, an escalation in the intensity of clashes, artillery shelling and air strikes, as the conflict between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces entered its eleventh week, causing the displacement of 2.5 million people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
Witnesses also pointed to a sharp increase in violence in recent days in Nyala, the largest city in the western Darfur region.
Yesterday, Saturday, the United Nations sounded the alarm regarding the ethnic targeting and killing of members of the Masalit community in El Geneina, West Darfur state, according to Archyde.com.
The Sudanese capital and the city of El Geneina are the most affected by the conflict that erupted on April 15 between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, but tensions and clashes escalated last week in other parts of Darfur and in Kordofan, in the south of the country.
Sudan.. The crisis goes beyond the borders of the capital
Hostilities have increased since both sides in the conflict violated a series of ceasefires agreed in Jeddah following talks led by the United States and Saudi Arabia. The talks were postponed last week.
Residents in Khartoum, Bahri and Omdurman, the three cities that make up the greater metropolitan area, said that fierce fighting broke out last night and continued until this morning.
The army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is using air strikes and heavy artillery in an attempt to expel the Rapid Support Forces, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, from the neighborhoods of Khartoum.
Muhammad Al-Samani, 47, told Archyde.com by phone, “We have been suffering from air strikes, artillery shelling and anti-aircraft fire from the Rapid Support Forces since early morning in northern Omdurman. Where are the Jeddah talks? Why did we let the world die alone in the ongoing war?” Between Al-Burhan and Hamidati?
Witnesses reported a significant deterioration in the security situation in Nyala over the past few days, with violent clashes breaking out in some residential neighborhoods.
Fighting also broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces last week around El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, which the United Nations says is inaccessible to aid workers.
In the city of El Geneina, which has seen an almost complete cut in communications networks and aid supplies in recent weeks, attacks by Arab militias and the Rapid Support Forces have sent tens of thousands fleeing across the border into Chad.
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On Saturday, Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), called for the creation of a safe corridor for those fleeing El Geneina and for aid workers to reach it, following reports of summary executions between the city and border areas and “the continued spread of hate speech”, including This calls for killing or expelling the Masalit.
Of those displaced by the conflict in Sudan, regarding two million people have been internally displaced, and nearly 600,000 have fled to neighboring countries, the International Organization for Migration said.
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