Staff Writer
As the war in the east African nation entered its 100th day, the army reported that nine persons, including four soldiers, were killed when a civilian airliner crashed in Sudan on Sunday (July 23) evening for “technical” reasons.
The army said that a youngster had survived the Antonov plane accident that claimed the lives of nine other people in Port Sudan, on the east coast that had been mostly spared by the fighting. Due to the violence, Port Sudan Airport is the only one in the nation that is still operational.
According to the most recent death toll from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), fighting between the army commanded by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, has resulted in more than 3,900 deaths since April 15.
The International Organization for Migration reported early July that over 2.2 million individuals had been domestically displaced, primarily from Khartoum.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces appear to be in control of Khartoum’s streets. According to locals and activists, its forces have taken control of homes and other civilian properties over the last three months and turned them into operational bases.
In response, the Sudanese army bombarded and airstriked heavily populated civilian areas.
Since the local water station was destroyed at the outset of the war, thousands of people still living in the capital, notably in Khartoum North, are cut off from supplies.
Residents claim that food has almost run out and that there is only sporadic access to electricity.
Essam Abbas, a different Khartoum North resident, remarked, “With the fighting, there is no market anymore and anyway we have no money.”
The neighborhood pro-democracy “resistance committee,” which was formed to aid them, made an urgent appeal.
The committee posted on Facebook, “We have to support each other, give food and money and distribute to those around us.”
Locally well-known musician Khaled Senhouri “died from hunger” last week in nearby Omdurman, Khartoum’s second war-torn sister city, his pals posted on Facebook.
Senhouri said in his own internet posts that the violence prevented him from leaving his house and that he was attempting to hold on with his supplies. It wasn’t sufficient.
Additionally, there have been claims of extensive vandalism and theft in Khartoum and the neighbouring city of Omdurman. Facilities that provide aid have frequently been attacked. According to the U.N. organization, at least two World Food Program locations—one in Khartoum and the other in the country’s capital city of El Obeid—have been robbed.
Attack by an MSF squad
An 18-person Doctors Without Borders team working at a major hospital was ambushed by armed individuals
the relief organization announced on Friday, July 21, in the war-torn capital of Sudan, Khartoum.
The organization claimed on its website that the armed men “aggressively assaulted our team, beating and whipping them after arguing about the reasons for MSF’s presence.”
MSF stated that one of the drivers was momentarily detained. The gang made no mention of the assailants’ uniforms or any other information.
While delivering supplies to the Turkish Hospital, which is situated in the South Khartoum neighborhood, the MSF medical team was stopped on the highway on Thursday.
In a tweet, MSF stated that they were “seriously concerned” that their presence in the Turkish Hospital would soon become untenable.
