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Clashes in Sudan between the Army and the Rapid Action Forces (RSF) have left at least 30 dead and 400 injured this Saturday, UN officials have reported to The New York Times.
In El Fasher, Darfur state, three deaths and 16 injuries have been reported, some of them in serious condition, including girls.
In the south of the state, the Army has managed to repel an RSF attack in combat that has left at least six dead and 16 wounded.
Seven people have died at least at Khartoum Airport, where there are at least 81 injured distributed in just three hospitals, according to the newspaper ‘Sudan Tribune’.
Another person has died in the city of El Obeid, capital of the state of North Kordofan, and a large number of injuries have been reported, without specifying the number.
The Sudan Doctors Union has called on civilians to avoid going out into the streets and other open places, urging them not to climb on the roofs of houses and to stay away from windows.
He has also spoken of “many martyrs and wounded” to whom it has not been possible to have access to provide health care due to the clashes. They also ask for help to be able to perform intravenous tests and purchase bags of blood and other medical supplies.
The clashes have broken out just hours after the Army and the RSF expressed their intention to start urgent negotiations to resolve their differences over the process of integrating both forces into a unified army, tensions that have paralyzed the political transition agreement in the country.
The clashes mark the culmination of weeks of discord just as the country seemed on the verge of successfully finalizing the so-called Transition Framework Agreement that provides for the handover of power to a civilian government.
