Bodies of people in military uniform are scattered in the streets of Omdurman in the west of the Sudanese capital, according to what eyewitnesses reported on Thursday, while the United Nations warned of intensifying fighting in the Darfur region between the army and the Rapid Support Forces as the war between them enters its seventh month.
Eyewitnesses in Omdurman told Agence France-Presse in a phone call from Wad Madani: “There are bodies of people wearing military uniforms dumped in the streets in the city center after Wednesday’s battles.”
While others reported that a shell fell on Al-Naw Hospital north of Omdurman, the last medical facility serving this area, “resulting in the death of a female worker.”
Battles continue in both Khartoum and its suburbs and the Darfur region in light of the failure of new negotiations this week on a ceasefire sponsored by Saudi Arabia and the United States.
On Thursday, the Deputy United Nations Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Darfur, Toby Harward, wrote in his account on the “X” website: “Hundreds of thousands of civilians and displaced persons are now exposed to great danger in the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, with the deteriorating security situation, food and water shortages, and limited services.” Extremely”.
He continued: “The Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces are fighting for control of the city, and this will have disastrous repercussions for civilians.”
The US Embassy in Sudan also expressed “deep concern about eyewitness reports of serious human rights violations by the Rapid Support Forces… including killings in the Ardamta region of West Darfur state, and the ethnic targeting of leaders and members of the Masalit ethnic group,” one of the most prominent non-Muslim ethnic groups. Arabic in West Darfur.
On Monday, the ruling Sovereignty Council mourned in a statement “one of the pillars of the native administration in Western Darfur, Muhammad Arbab… who was treacherously assassinated by the rebel Rapid Support militias, after they stormed the homes of citizens in the Ardamta region.”
“His son and eight of his grandchildren were also killed, in a heinous crime that shames humanity,” the statement said.
Fighting has been raging since April in densely populated areas between army forces led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, nicknamed “Hemedti.”
The conflict between the two rival generals paralyzed basic services in Sudan and destroyed entire neighborhoods in the capital and the vast Darfur region in the west of the country.
The war resulted in 10,400 deaths, according to the ECLID organization concerned with counting conflict victims. It also led to the displacement and asylum of more than six million Sudanese, according to the United Nations.
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2023-11-09 14:13:49
