Sudan is “on the brink of total civil war”, warns the UN

Another deadly strike. An air force raid on a residential area of ​​Khartoum killed dozens of civilians in Sudan on Saturday (July 8th). The bombardments took place on the district of Dar al-Salam, literally “house of peace” in Arabic, in Omdurman, the northwestern suburb of Khartoum. They did according to the local Ministry of Health “22 dead and a large number of wounded among the civilians”.

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On Facebook, the ministry posted a video showing lifeless bodies, some with torn limbs, including several of women. For their part, the Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army since April 15, denounced “the tragic loss of more than 31 lives and numerous injuries”.

Nearly three million refugees

Sudan is “on the verge of total civil war”, warns the UN. The organization believes that the situation is “potentially destabilizing for the whole region”. In nearly three months of war between the paramilitaries of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo and the regular troops of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, nearly 3,000 dead have been recorded – a very underestimated toll, both the bodies strewn on the streets are inaccessible. Nearly three million Sudanese have been forced to leave their homes – including more than 600,000 to go abroad – as the abuses from both sides are increasing.

One of the spokespersons for the UN Secretary General thus denounced “a total lack of respect for humanitarian law and human rights”particularly in Darfur, a martyred region in the 2000s, once again at the heart of fighting having resumed “ethnic dimension”.

To attempt a way out of the crisis, the UN pleads for the proposals of Igad. This East African bloc, to which Khartoum belongs, will bring together on Monday in Addis Ababa the heads of state or government of the four countries involved in the Sudanese dossier: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan.