Amidst an escalating armed conflict in Sudan, over 900 brave Sudanese staffers with the MN-based nonprofit Alight risk all to provide food, shelter, and healthcare to civilians.
, formerly known as The American Refugee Committee, swiftly evacuated 10 international staff and 22 Sudanese following the outbreak of violence between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces on April 15.
Alight has joined the World Health Organization in calling on the parties to stop fighting and allow for humanitarian coordinators, so aid workers can move freely. "I never even in my worst nightmares, imagined a war coming into our capital in the middle of Sudan and killing that many people in a few weeks," he said.
There were two notorious incidents when security forces opened fire on protests. In June 2019, the army stormed a protest camp and killed 118 people in the "Khartoum massacre," and then, the next month, RSF opened fire on a crowd of protesters, killing four and wounding 40.
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