The U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Tuesday that over 700,000 people in Sudan have been driven from their homes by fighting between two junta factions.
The U.N. International Organization for Migration warned on Tuesday that over 700,000 people in Sudan have been driven from their homes by fighting between two junta factions.
“The fighting must end and humanitarians must be allowed to resume their work, providing assistance to those most in need before the situation spirals further out of control,” IOM urged. suggested the dramatic upward revision might have been influenced by more accurate information collected during a relative lull in the fighting – a “ceasefire” extended several times, but never without the sounds of gunfire and bombs being heard across the capital city of Khartoum.
“A permanent cease-fire isn’t on the table. Every side believes it is capable of winning the battle,” a Saudi official glumly toldThis assessment was consistent with public remarks by the faction chiefs — Sudanese army commander Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo — each of whom intends to fight until the other is dead.
“Other residents said that military fighter jets were flying all over south Khartoum and heavy fighting was taking place in the middle-class neighborhood al-Sahafa, not too far from the international airport, which is shut,” the BBC reported.
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