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Sudan Battle Updates, Khartoum, street battles, Eid celebrations, death toll
PhotoNews Pakistan > Top News > Sudan’s Capital Khartoum Rocked by Street Battles Amid Eid Celebrations
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Sudan’s Capital Khartoum Rocked by Street Battles Amid Eid Celebrations

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By Web Desk Published April 22, 2023 4 Min Read
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As Eid celebrations marking the end of the fasting month began, “several areas of Khartoum were bombed” and reported “shelling and clashes” for the sixth straight night, increasing the death toll to 413.

According to the World Health Organisation, the death toll is thought to be higher, however, with many wounded unable to reach hospitals.

The forces of two rival generals fought intense street battles in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Friday, witnesses reported, as the warring parties ignored appeals for an end-of-Ramazan ceasefire. Thousands of casualties have been reported since the fighting erupted a week ago between forces loyal to Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the commander of the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who is commonly known as Hemeti.

WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told reporters at a press briefing in Geneva on Friday that 413 people had been killed and 3,551 wounded in the fighting across Sudan. The UN migration agency said a staff member had been killed in fighting in southern Sudan when his vehicle was caught in the crossfire.

The humanitarian worker with the International Organisation for Migration is the fourth UN member of staff killed in less than a week, as three employees of the World Food Programme were killed in the North Darfur region of eastern Sudan.

The UN children’s agency Unicef added that at least nine children were dead, and more than 50 children had been wounded.

Witnesses told AFP that soldiers and paramilitaries fought fierce street battles in residential areas of central and northern Khartoum, with most of the city’s five million people sheltering at home in the baking heat without electricity, food or water.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called separately for a ceasefire of “at least” three days to mark Eid, as explosions and gunfire resounded in Khartoum.

The RSF said they would commit to a 72-hour ceasefire starting at dawn. However, it failed to take hold like two previously declared 24-hour ceasefires.

The crackle of intense gunfire continued Friday morning, with columns of black smoke rising across the capital.

Citing Sudanese health ministry figures, the WHO spokeswoman said 20 health facilities had stopped functioning, and another 12 were at risk of stopping. This would affect “not only the people who have been injured during this terrible fighting, but the people who needed treatment before,” she noted.

“It’s taking a devastating toll on the country’s children,” Unicef spoke­­sman James Elder told reporters.

“As long as fighting continues, children will continue to pay the price. The fighting means many families are trapped, with little or no access to electricity, terrified of running out of food, water and medicine.” He said Sudan already had one of the world’s highest child malnutrition rates, with critical life-saving care now disrupted for an estimated 50,000 severely acutely malnourished children.

“When the bombing or shelling begins outside the hospital and where medical staff needs to flee, then what?”

“We need forces to cease hostilities immediately and for all parties to respect their international obligations to protect children from harm,” he said. (AFP)

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