Hundreds of people, including dozens of children, have been killed in Sudan in recent days, according to political witnesses, medical workers and the United Nations, as intense conflicts have escaped in an internal conflict approaching the third year.
The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid support forces has released a wave of destruction throughout Sudan, killing tens of thousands of people, forcing millions to leave their homes and push parts of the huge nation.
“Citizens are currently living in a panic,” said Asim Ahmed Musa, 29, an activist in Kadugli, southern Kordofan State, where dozens were killed this week. “People are afraid.”
In the capital, Khartoum and neighboring cities, the Darfour region in the West and in various other states, the devastating war escalates as war parties are trying to consolidate their territorial claims, recover new and secure strategic and strategic military.
The conflict was characterized by gross atrocities and ethnic motives, causing investigations by the International Criminal Court and charges of genocide by the United States.
In recent weeks, the Army has reinforced its attack to repeat important parts of the capital, which it lost when the war began in April 2023. The conflict is slowly heated by the end of last year after the end of the rain season. . With gradual deaths, injuries and attacks on civilians, activists call on the United Nations to develop a peacekeeping mission in the country.
In January, the army occupied a strategic oil refinery north of Khartoum and broke the siege at its main headquarters in Central Khartoum.
Army leader, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, visited the days of the installation later and promised to remove the paramilitary forces from “every corner of Sudan”.
However, even when army officers celebrated their victory, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights were accused of fighters and militias allied with them that they were summoning at least 18 people in the recently liberated areas.
The battle has also escalated to Omdurman, a city across the Nile from the capital that hosts about 2.4 million people and is Sudan’s second largest city. The Sudan Ministry of Health said at least 54 people were killed and 158 others were injured on Saturday when the paramilitary forces cut a busy market there.
A few days later, on Tuesday, the ministry said six people were killed and another 38 were injured when mortar shells hit a main hospital who had already cured people who had been injured in battles.
Wild conflicts have also followed this week at South Kordofan, which is sharing borders with South Sudan and Blue Nile states, where millions were already facing difficult humanitarian crises.
In the city of Kadugli in southern Kordofan, the latest infighting has left at least 80 people dead, the United Nations said this week.
Mr Musa, who lives in the city, said many people did not have access to sufficient food or medicines. Employees were unable to receive their salaries, he said, and many families had limited cash, especially after Sudan introduced new bank notes last month.
Conflicts continued all over the city, he said, and the noise of bombing and shooting had forced many people to fly down.
“Kadugli is an active zone today,” Mr Musa said, adding that the whole situation was “tragic”.
The western area of ​​Darfour was also the place of intense conflicts recently, an agonizing reproduction for an area that experienced genocide just two decades ago.
Since the beginning of the conflict, the paramilitary forces or the RSF and their allies have accelerated attacks in the area and unify their control into large cities.
They also siege to El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, where they clash with the army and its allies. An attack on the only hospital at El Fasher in late January killed 70 people and injured 19 others, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization.
A resident at El Fasher on Friday reported disorders of already fragile internet connections, seriously limiting people’s ability to communicate. Wild battles and bombing continued to plow in the city, sometimes late at night, leading to serious injuries and stretching the loaded healthcare system.
The fight against the region has also displaced hundreds of families, according to the United Nations, pressing some of them to go beyond the border in Chad.
The last conflict has not saved children. At least 40 children were killed in just three days this month, UNICEF said this week.
“As the conflict remains, children’s lives and future fulfillment contracts hang on to balance and for their sake, violence must end immediately,” said UNICEF Sudan spokesman Annmarie Swai.
At the moment, war sides insist that they can eventually cancel the other.
Despite the losses in the capital, Mr Mohamed Hamdan, the paramilitary leader, gave a recorded video speech last week in which he tried to restore the loose morale between his forces and promised to occupy fresh territory.
“We have to think about what we intend to get,” he said. “I look forward and not backwards.”
