Sudan’s army and a paramilitary force battled on Khartoum’s outskirts, undermining a truce in their 11-day conflict, but the army expressed willingness to extend the ceasefire. | Reuters
“Burhan thanked the IGAD and expressed an initial approval to that,” the army statement said.
Since fighting erupted on April 15, air strikes and artillery have killed at least 512 people, wounded nearly 4,200, destroyed hospitals and limited food distribution in the vast nation where a third of the 46 million people were already reliant on humanitarian aid.The World Health Organization said only 16% of health facilities were functioning in Khartoum and predicted “many more deaths” due to disease and shortages of food, water and medical services including immunization.
Foreigners evacuated from Khartoum have described bodies littering streets, buildings on fire, residential areas turned into battlefields and youths roaming with large knives.“It was horrible,” said Thanassis Pagoulatos, the 80-year-old Greek owner of the Acropole Hotel in Khartoum, after arriving in Athens to the embrace of emotional relatives.
Over the weekend, thousands of inmates were freed outright from prison, including a former minister in Bashir’s government who, like him, is wanted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The plan was derailed by the eruption of fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces . The two sides and the FCC missed an April deadline to launch the transition to democracy, largely over disputes about merging the security forces.
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