July 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called on the international community to undertake an urgent humanitarian response to help the population of Sudan as the fourth month of the outbreak of a devastating conflict between the army and paramilitaries is about to expire. it has fueled permanent tensions between the tribes in the Darfur region, the scene right now of a campaign of atrocities.
“People in the capital Khartoum, in Darfur and in other parts of the country are living in alarming conditions, with minimal access to healthcare, water or electricity amid dramatically rising food prices across the country.” , the committee has made known.
On April 15, and after months of disagreement over the constitution of the future Sudanese Armed Forces, the Sudanese Army and the powerful paramilitary forces of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched into an all-out battle that led to a diplomatic exodus. and humanitarian and left the country to its fate.
The death toll is impossible to verify due to the prevailing violence, amid daily shelling in and around Khartoum, and tribal massacres in Darfur. The ICRC estimates “thousands dead, more than two million internally displaced and hundreds of thousands of refugees in Egypt, South Sudan” and Chad, completely exposed to violence. 80 percent of the country’s health system is now destroyed.
In the midst of this situation, the ICRC and the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) “continue to cross the front lines, evacuating the most vulnerable, assisting in the transfer of released detainees and providing support to hospitals in Khartoum, Darfur and other parts of Sudan and its environs”.
The ICRC claims that, since the outbreak of the conflict, its humanitarian workers have managed to evacuate 301 children from the Maygoma orphanage in the capital, distributed material for ten hospitals in Khartoum, four in Darfur and six in other regions of Sudan, and deployed a team of surgeons in eastern Chad to help the wounded who have managed to cross the border.
The ICRC has also facilitated the release of 125 detainees, including 44 wounded soldiers, as a neutral intermediary and at the request of the parties to the conflict.
