The truce concluded last weekend between the belligerents in Saudi Arabia is still not respected in the country. While the intensity of fighting had subsided for 48 hours in the capital Khartoum, more violent clashes were reported by residents on Wednesday.
Fighting resumed in and around Khartoum on Wednesday after two days of relative calm, residents said. Artillery fire was heard in the center, south and north of the capital. An army plane was even shot down over Omdurman and the pilot taken prisoner, according to several sources.
Throughout the country, clashes have also continued to take place in recent days in Nyala and Zalingei in particular, despite the truce. This is at least what Saudi Arabia and the United States noted on Tuesday. ” While the fighting in Khartoum seemed less intense (…)they said in a joint statementfacilitators [de l’accord de Jeddah] transmitted (…) reports indicating that both parties had violated the agreement. In addition, the town of El-Geneina, in Darfur, has been cut off from the world since Friday.
Violence against civilians has not ceased either, notably in two new hospitals in the capital whose patients and staff have been evicted. Doctors Without Borders’ emergency coordinator in Sudan, Jean-Nicolas Armstrong Dangelser, explained that he had identified violations of humanitarian law at a level “ rarely seen before “.
Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Wednesday urged the Sudanese generals to ” stop this senseless violence “.
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