Airstrikes and exchange of artillery fire shook the Sudanese capital Khartoumand armed men looted the building of the Qatari embassy, reported France Press.
Residents of Khartoum told AFP that the fierce fighting in the city continue despite repeated international calls for a humanitarian truce.
One of the places in the capital that were bombed, was the area of the state television building in Khartoum’s neighboring town of Omburdman, eyewitnesses said.
They announced a ceasefire for a week in Sudan
The power struggle in Sudan between the head of the regular army, Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and his former deputy, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who commanded the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF), exploded on April 15.
The conflict claimed the lives of hundreds of people, most of them civilians, and forced over 1 million people to leave their homes. The UN has warned that the humanitarian situation in Africa’s third-largest country, where even before the war one in three depended on aid, is rapidly deteriorating.
Today, the Qatari embassy was attacked again diplomatic mission. Doha condemned the attack. “Qatar condemns in the strongest terms the storming and pogrom by the irregular armed forces in the embassy building in Khartoum,” the Qatari foreign ministry said.
“The embassy staff has long been evacuated, no diplomats or mission staff were injured”. Doha again called for an “immediate end to fighting in Sudan, maximum restraint and to spare the civilian population during hostilities”.
Qatar did not directly assign Dagalo’s SBP responsibility for the embassy raid, but Burhan-controlled authorities directly blamed paramilitary forces for the attack.
In recent weeks, the embassies of Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey were also attacked. The attack was carried out the day after arab summit meetingand in Saudi Arabia, where participating Arab leaders called on the warring generals to end the fighting.
2023-05-20 20:29:00
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