CAIRO: Clashes broke out between armed fighters in a city last month SudanAt least 100 killed in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region Doctors Syndicate,
Hospitals were still out of service in the Darfur city of Jean In a statement posted on its official Facebook page late on Sunday, the doctors’ association said it was still difficult to give an accurate count of the injured.
The fighting in Jenena, which began days after two rival generals in Sudan turned against each other in the capital Khartoum, points to the possibility that the conflict could affect other parts of the East African country. .
The syndicate’s death toll has come to the fore as talks between the warring sides continue in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. A statement issued by the Saudi Foreign Ministry on Monday said the talks between a delegation of the country’s army on the one hand and the powerful paramilitary, Rapid Support Force, on the other are expected to last for a few more days.
The talks, which focused on creating humanitarian corridors to allow aid and civilians to move, are part of a wider diplomatic initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia and the US to stop the fighting.
The doctors’ union did not specify either side for the clashes in Jena, a city of nearly half a million people located near the border with Chad, which has been a flashpoint since the early days of the fighting.
Late last month, residents described how armed fighters, many of whom wore Rapid Support Force paramilitary uniforms, stormed the town, looting shops and homes and battling rival forces. He said the fighting was dragging in tribal militias, tapping into long-standing hatred between the region’s two main communities – one that identifies as Arab, the other as East or Central African.
In the early 2000s, African tribes in Darfur, who had long complained of discrimination, rebelled against the Khartoum government, which responded with a military campaign later described by the International Criminal Court as genocide. State-backed Arab militias known as Janjaweed were accused of widespread killings, rapes and other atrocities. The Janjaweed later evolved into the Rapid Support Force paramilitary group, better known as the RSF.
According to the statements of the same doctors, at least 481 civilians were killed in Khartoum clashes that erupted in mid-April between the army led by General Abdel Fattah Burhan and the RSF led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagallo. The number of civilians injured has risen to more than 2,560.
On Friday, the governor of West Darfur, where Jenaina is located, accused RSF of damaging government offices, setting fire to more than 10 shelters for displaced communities, and looting homes and shops.
“Today, West Darfur is a ruined province. What is left of Darfur’s population lives in very harsh conditions,” General Khamis Abdullah Abkar said in a video posted on a local news site on Friday.
“The international community should not remain silent about the challenge in this province. He must act immediately; People need shelter, food and medicine,” he said.
The paramilitary force has repeatedly denied claims that its forces terrorized civilians or used brutal tactics.
Hospitals were still out of service in the Darfur city of Jean In a statement posted on its official Facebook page late on Sunday, the doctors’ association said it was still difficult to give an accurate count of the injured.
The fighting in Jenena, which began days after two rival generals in Sudan turned against each other in the capital Khartoum, points to the possibility that the conflict could affect other parts of the East African country. .
The syndicate’s death toll has come to the fore as talks between the warring sides continue in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. A statement issued by the Saudi Foreign Ministry on Monday said the talks between a delegation of the country’s army on the one hand and the powerful paramilitary, Rapid Support Force, on the other are expected to last for a few more days.
The talks, which focused on creating humanitarian corridors to allow aid and civilians to move, are part of a wider diplomatic initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia and the US to stop the fighting.
The doctors’ union did not specify either side for the clashes in Jena, a city of nearly half a million people located near the border with Chad, which has been a flashpoint since the early days of the fighting.
Late last month, residents described how armed fighters, many of whom wore Rapid Support Force paramilitary uniforms, stormed the town, looting shops and homes and battling rival forces. He said the fighting was dragging in tribal militias, tapping into long-standing hatred between the region’s two main communities – one that identifies as Arab, the other as East or Central African.
In the early 2000s, African tribes in Darfur, who had long complained of discrimination, rebelled against the Khartoum government, which responded with a military campaign later described by the International Criminal Court as genocide. State-backed Arab militias known as Janjaweed were accused of widespread killings, rapes and other atrocities. The Janjaweed later evolved into the Rapid Support Force paramilitary group, better known as the RSF.
According to the statements of the same doctors, at least 481 civilians were killed in Khartoum clashes that erupted in mid-April between the army led by General Abdel Fattah Burhan and the RSF led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagallo. The number of civilians injured has risen to more than 2,560.
On Friday, the governor of West Darfur, where Jenaina is located, accused RSF of damaging government offices, setting fire to more than 10 shelters for displaced communities, and looting homes and shops.
“Today, West Darfur is a ruined province. What is left of Darfur’s population lives in very harsh conditions,” General Khamis Abdullah Abkar said in a video posted on a local news site on Friday.
“The international community should not remain silent about the challenge in this province. He must act immediately; People need shelter, food and medicine,” he said.
The paramilitary force has repeatedly denied claims that its forces terrorized civilians or used brutal tactics.