2023-05-15 18:13:55
In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where they are meeting under the auspices of the United States and Saudi Arabia, the representatives of the belligerents have not managed to conclude a ceasefire agreement. Just an agreement on the opening of corridors humanitarian.
“Both sides feel they have no interest in a ceasefire. Either because they think they can still winthe war or because they think that stopping the fighting would mean at least a political defeat that would call their status into question”says Roland Marchal, a researcher specializing in the Horn of Africa.
The conflict has already caused more than 750 deaths, 5,000 injuries and more than 900,000 displaced and refugeess. A balance sheet which should increase because the fighting is still raging, especially in Khartoum, between the camps of the two generals who clash: the Rapid Support Forces of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, alias “Hemedti”, and those of Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, the head of the regular armed forces and president of the military transition in Sudan.
The balance of power
On the ground, neither side seems to be gaining the advantage for the moment and the conflict might last, according to Antoine Basbous, director of the Observatory of Arab Countries in Paris.
“The conflict will last until there is a winner and a loser. There will be a winner and a loser and one will dictate the law to the other. For the moment, this winner does not emerge. There is a certain balance of forces: in the capital, it is General Hemedti who wins, while in the rest of the country it is the regular army of General Al-Burhane.”
Khartoum, a disaster city
Since April 15, when hostilities began, millions of Sudanese, mainly in Khartoum, have been barricaded in their homes with virtually no running water or electricity and with shortages of food, money, medicine and fuel.
In Khartoum, the airport is destroyed, the shopping centers looted and the administrations closed.
Many residents have retreated to Port Sudan, 850 kilometers east of Khartoum, spared the violence.
“The situation is very difficult. The war is tough and the Rapid Support Forces are taking over the country. We came here because we want to be evacuated. We are left on the street in the sun and the families see us but no one is helping us. We are sitting near the big hotel in Port Sudan. We want the organizations to evacuate us from Sudan because the country is totally devastated. There is no food, no work…nothing.”laments Hamden Mohammed.
The situation is also said to be very critical in Darfur, in the western border of Chad. According to the UN, 450 people were killed in the town of El-Geneina in recent fighting involving, in addition to soldiers and paramilitaries, armed civilians and tribal fighters or local armed groups.
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