According to civilian witnesses, medical staff and the United Nations, hundreds of people have been killed in Sudan in recent days as fierce conflict escalates in internal conflicts approaching its third year.
The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid support force unleashed a devastating wave of Sudan, killing thousands of people, forcing millions to escape from their homes and pushing parts of the vast country deeper famine.
“Everywhere, death is approaching,” said Mustafa Ahmed, 28, a painter of Omdurman, who lives in the Nile River, Khartoum (Khartoum) said in a telephone interview.
He said he and his family were very worried about continuing the shelling and were designing ways to leave the city. “I’m trying to leave to save my family from death,” he said.
In the capital and adjacent cities, the Darfur region of the West, and several other states, the devastating war is escalating as warring parties work to consolidate their territorial claims, regain new strategies and secure strategic military and civilian sites.
The conflict was marked by serious atrocities and racially motivated killings, prompting an investigation by the International Criminal Court and allegations of genocide in the United States.
In recent weeks, the Army has taken offensives to regain a significant part of the capital, which was lost when the war began in April 2023. Since the end of the rainy season, the conflict has been gradually heating up. As civilian deaths, injuries and attacks escalate, activists have been calling on the United Nations to deploy peacekeeping missions in the country.
In January, the Army occupied a strategic refinery north of Khartoum and broke the siege at its main headquarters in the heart of Khartoum.
General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, chief of the army, visited the facility a few days later and promised to remove paramilitary forces from “every corner of the Sudan”.
But even as Army officials celebrated their victory, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights alleged that combatants and militias were alleged to be allied with them, executing at least 18 people in newly liberated areas.
Omdurman also escalated the battle, with about 2.4 million people, the second largest city in Sudan. The Sudanese Ministry of Health said at least 54 people were killed and 158 were injured when paramilitary forces shelled out the busy market there.
Just a few days later, on Tuesday, the ministry said six people were killed and another 38 were injured when mortar shells attacked a major hospital that was already treating people injured in the fight.
There was also a fierce clash this week in South Kordofan, which has borders with South Sudan and Blue Nile State, where millions of people are already facing terrible humanity Crisis of ideology.
The latest infighting killed at least 80 people in Kadugli, South Cordofin, the United Nations said this week.
Asim Ahmed Musa, who lives in the city, said many people are unable to get enough food or medicine. He said workers were unable to get their salaries and many families had limited cash, especially after Sudan launched new bank notes last month.
He said the conflict has been throughout the city, with the roar of shelling and gunfire forcing many to deceive. “Citizens are in a state of panic right now,” he said. “People are scared.”
The western region of Darfur has also recently been a site of fierce conflict, a region suffering from genocide more than two decades ago.
Since the beginning of the conflict, paramilitary forces or RSF and their allies have attacked in the region and have consolidated their control over major cities.
They also siege El Fasher, the capital of northern Darfur, where they clashed with the Army and its allies. In late January, the attack on the sole functional hospital in El Fasher killed 70 people, according to the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the attack on the sole functional hospital in El Fasher in late January killed 70 people, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization. , and injured 19 people.
According to the United Nations, combat throughout the region also displaced hundreds of families, prompting some of them to flee the border into Chad.
The latest conflict has not released the child either. UNICEF said this week that at least 40 children were killed in just three days this month.
“As the conflict continues, the lives and future of children are pending, and for their sake, violence must end immediately.”
For now, the warring side insists that they can eventually abandon each other.
Despite the losses suffered by the capital, paramilitary leader Lieutenant General Mohammed Hamdan delivered a recorded video speech last week, trying to restore morale to the sagging in the troops and promised to capture new territory.
“We have to consider the steps we intend to take,” he said. “Expect rather than backward.”
