29 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Former Prime Minister of Sudan Abdalá Hamdok, the country’s last civilian leader, warned this Saturday that if the current conflict between the Army and the Rapid Support Forces results in an open war, it could be worse than the conflicts in Syria, Yemen or Libya.
“May Allah not allow Sudan to reach a civil war,” Hamdok said at an event in Nairobi with philanthropist Mo Ibrahim, because the conflict would make the wars in Syria, Yemen or Libya appear “small in comparison.”
Sudan is a huge, diverse country with various ethnic and religious groups, so open war “would be a nightmare for the world.”
Hamdo, has highlighted the involvement of foreign countries to achieve the evacuation of their citizens and has called for the same commitment to exert continued pressure on the military.
Present at the same event was the British Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, who believes that there is a “unanimity in the will” of the international community to achieve a ceasefire, for the military to return to their barracks and reopen the political space. “This is going to be a calamity unless we manage to stop the fighting,” he warned.
The Sudanese Ministry of Health reported this Saturday 528 deaths in all hospitals in the country and 4,599 injuries from April 15 to 27 as a result of the conflict.