In Khartoum, clashes between the Army and paramilitaries caused 12 deaths among the civilian population this Sunday. This new balance comes one day after an air strike that killed 23 civilians, including two children, in a residential neighborhood. The conflict between the Army and the paramilitaries, which broke out on April 15, has claimed the lives of 5,000 people and displaced 4.8 million people.
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New clashes in Sudan. Crossfire between army artillery and paramilitaries killed 12 civilians this Sunday, September 3 in Khartoum, a day after the death of 20 other civilians, including two children, in an airstrike, a doctor and activists reported.
A medical source told the AFP news agency that the civilians were killed when rockets hit their homes in Omdurman, a northwestern suburb of Khartoum.
The Kalakla district “resistance committee” in Khartoum earlier announced that “the number of civilian deaths from the airstrikes in Kalakla had risen to 23.”
This Saturday, September 2, this pro-democracy group, which has been organizing mutual aid among residents since the start of the war in April, reported that “12 dead civilians, including two children and a woman,” were in the morgue of one of the last operating hospitals in the capital, adding that “many bodies burned and torn by the bombardment” had not been able to be transferred there.
The war that broke out on April 15 between the Army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and the Rapid Support Forces (FAR) paramilitaries, led by General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, has claimed the lives of 5,000 people. , according to the ONE Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) report, and has displaced 4.8 million people according to the UN.
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In Khartoum, fighting has focused on densely populated neighborhoods where millions of residents have been living for nearly five months with power and water cuts, in sweltering heat, sheltering in their homes to protect themselves from crossfire.
This Sunday, witnesses informed the AFP news agency of “Army artillery shots against FAR positions” in the northern suburbs of the capital.
More than half of Sudanese need humanitarian aid to survive and six million of them are on the brink of famine, aid workers warn.
Fighting and famine now threaten to “consume Sudan and plunge the region into a humanitarian catastrophe,” says the UN, which has only received a quarter of its funding pledges and faces bureaucratic hurdles in delivering aid.
*Article adapted from its original in French
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