Sudan: Fighting continues in Khartoum where entire neighborhoods are deprived of drinking water

More than two months into Sudan’s war between the army and paramilitaries, airstrikes, gunfire and explosions rock Khartoum on Saturday, June 17, as violence in Darfur continues to drive residents to flee .

Airstrikes targeted the Yarmouk district in the south of the capital, killing “17 civilians, including five children” and wounding “11 others”, according to the local resistance committee, one of the militant cells which organize mutual aid between the inhabitants of the capital. An independently verifiable record. Firing with “various types of weapons” was also reported by residents of southern Khartoum, while in the northern suburbs resound “rocket and heavy artillery fire”, witnesses told Agence France -Press (AFP).

In this chaos, entire districts of the capital are deprived of drinking water and electricity only works for a few hours a week.

Since April 15, fighting between General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane’s army and the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, has plunged Sudan, already one of the most poor in the world, in an inextricable crisis.

Find refuge in Chad

The situation is just as alarming in the Darfur region where “violence is raging”, alerted the NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Saturday. Testimonies of large-scale violence against civilians are increasing there, and according to the UN, more than 149,000 people have fled to Chad since the fighting began.

In the past few days alone, “six thousand people have fled the town of Al-Geneina” (West Darfur), seeking refuge in the town of Adre in Chad, MSF said on Saturday. Among them, “622 wounded” fleeing the ongoing fighting in Darfur have been treated in the past three days at Adré hospital, the NGO added in a statement.

In the country, the humanitarian situation is only getting worse: hospitals in the areas of clashes are only partially functioning, when they are not closed.

Two months of war in Sudan have left more than two thousand dead, according to the NGO Acled. More than 2.2 million people have fled the country, according to the UN, while 528,000 refugees have found refuge in neighboring countries. Despite attempts at mediation, led in particular by Riyadh and Washington, no scenario of a return to peace is in sight.