The envoy is said to be fine, and no EU diplomats have been evacuated from the country so far. Sudan is feared to be on the brink of full civil war.
The European Union’s ambassador to Sudan was assaulted on Monday at his home in the capital, Khartoum.
The High Representative of the EU’s Foreign Affairs and Security Policy tells about it on Twitter Josep Borell. Borell described the incident as a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
– The security of diplomatic facilities and personnel is a central obligation of the Sudanese authorities, which is stipulated in international law, Borrell wrote.
He did not elaborate on the incident. BBC’s (switching to another service) according to the EU ambassador to Sudan is an Irish diplomat Aidan O’Hara.
EU spokesperson Nabila Massrali told news agency AFP that the ambassador is fine.
According to Massral, EU diplomatic personnel in Sudan have not been evacuated from the country, but their security measures are being re-evaluated.
Earlier today, the UN said that in Sudan, which has drifted into a violent power struggle between two military groups, at least 185 people have died and 1,800 people have been injured in the violence.
There is a risk of expanding into a civil war in the battles that broke out over the weekend, according to STT Tiina Kukkamaa-Bahhead of the sub-Saharan Africa team of the peace mediation organization CMI.
Fighting in the middle of Khartoum
In the conflict, those who hold power in Sudan are facing each other by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan led by the country’s armed forces as well as Mohamed Hamdan “Hemeti” Daglon paramilitary forces commanded by the RSF. The RSF emerged from among the Janjaweed fighters. The Janjaweed once killed tens of thousands of people in the Darfur region.
The battles are taking place in the middle of the residential areas of the capital Khartoum, where civilians have become vicariously victims, says Kukkamaa-Bah.
– The situation there is now very dangerous.
Battles have also taken place elsewhere than in the capital.
Secretary General of the UN Antonio Guterres demanded an immediate ceasefire in Sudan on Monday.
Sources: AFP, Reuters