Since the start of the conflict between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group in April, more than six million people have been displaced and most of the country’s infrastructure has been destroyed.
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For several months, Sudan has been torn apart by war between two rival generals. According to a press release from an NGO which documents civilian victims in this conflict, “more than 20 civilians were killed and others were injured,” Sunday, November 5, by the fall of shells on a market located in a suburb near Khartoum, the capital.
“During intense exchanges of fire between the belligerents, shells fell on a market in Omdurman,” specifies the press release from the Pro-Democracy Lawyers Committee. The day before, at least 15 civilians had been killed by “shells falling on their houses” in Khartoum, this time a medical source said.
Negotiations are stalling
Started on April 15, the war between the army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane and the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, left more than 9,000 dead, according to an estimate by the NGO Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (Acled), considered largely underestimated. It also displaced more than 6 million people and destroyed most infrastructure.
Talks between the belligerents resumed at the end of October in the Saudi city of Jeddah, aiming “to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance, to establish ceasefires and other confidence-building measures, and to progress towards a permanent cessation of hostilities”, according to Saudi authorities. But so far, previous attempts at mediation have only resulted in brief truces, which have been systematically violated.