June 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least eleven civilians have died and 42 have been injured as a result of the resumption this past Saturday of hostilities between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur and regional historical center.
All of these victims have been received in a single hospital, the Al Shuhada Medical Center, as reported to the ‘Sudan Tribune’ by medical sources who attribute all of them to the bombings by the paramilitaries, who have kept the city under siege for months.
Saturday’s clashes have broken a couple of days of relative calm. Sudanese media sources have also confirmed Army air attacks against paramilitary positions on the outskirts of the city, specifically in the east and south.
NGOs such as Doctors Without Borders have warned this week that El Fasher is the scene of “a bloodbath”, and that the fighting has already left, according to the most conservative estimates, 150 dead, in addition to triggering international alarms due to its impact. about the humanitarian crisis in the country, mired in a civil war for more than a year.
The clashes in El Fasher have caused a mass exodus of the population. More than one and a half million people were taking shelter from the fighting in the city and surrounding displaced persons camps until the RSF began its November offensive.
The war broke out on April 15, 2023 due to strong disagreements regarding the integration process of the paramilitary group – now declared a terrorist organization – within the Armed Forces, a situation that caused the definitive derailment of the transition opened in 2019 after the overthrow of the Omar Hasan al Bashir regime.
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