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EU should shift gears in the face of atrocities in Sudan<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//06//19//uae-accused-of-fueling-war-by-providing-weapons-to-sudans-paramilitary-rivals/">UAE accused of fueling war by providing weapons to Sudan's paramilitary rivals<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While the SAF has gained support from Iran, Egypt, and Ukraine, the RSF has gained the support of the UAE and Russia. The involvement of these proxies has led to Sudan becoming another battleground between Ukrainian and Russian forces. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the UAE\u2019s repeated denials, United Nations experts have said accusations that the UAE armed the RSF were \"credible\". Emirati officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment over the reported plane shoot-down.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan's war has killed over 24,000 people so far, according to the group Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, which has been monitoring the violence since the conflict's start. The Sudanese army has been pursuing an intensified offensive near Khartoum, while forces allied with it have been battling the RSF in Darfur.<\/p>\n<h2>'Foreign warplane' accusations<\/h2><p>The paramilitary force claimed in a statement that it had shot down a \"foreign warplane\" that had been aiding the Sudanese military. It also alleged without providing evidence that the aircraft had been dropping \"barrel bombs\" on civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\"All foreign mercenaries aboard the aircraft were eliminated in the operation,\" the statement said. Mobile phone footage showed fighters among the burning wreckage, claiming they shot down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Identity documents shown in the videos included a Russian passport and an ID that linked back to a UAE-based company, whose phone number has been disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>A crumpled safety card, also purportedly from the aircraft, identified the plane as an Ilyushin Il-76 flown by New Way Cargo of Kyrgyzstan. <\/p>\n<p>Civil aviation officials in Kyrgyzstan did not respond to a request for comment late Monday, but the OSINT website Aviation Safety Network confirmed the aircraft\u2019s details.<\/p>\n<p>The group Conflict Observatory, which is funded by the US State Department and has been monitoring the Sudan war, linked New Way Cargo's Ilyushin Il-76s to arming the RSF in a report this month.<\/p>\n<p>It said the airline had facilitated the UAE arms transfers through flights to A\u00e9roport International Mar\u00e9chal Idriss Deby in Amdjarass, Chad, where the flight was reportedly destined. The UAE doesn\u2019t deny these flights but claims they are for supporting a local hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Amdjarass is just across the border from Malha, where the shoot-down reportedly happened.<\/p>\n<p>\"The UAE has used the airport as a waypoint to facilitate weapons to the RSF,\" the report said, noting that the Emirates offered a $1.5 billion (\u20ac1.3 billion) loan to rapidly expand the airport. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1729544781,"updatedAt":1729576053,"publishedAt":1729546160,"firstPublishedAt":1729546160,"lastPublishedAt":1729547221,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/80\/41\/20\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_fbe884b1-80a4-5490-bff3-5ed80501833e-8804120.jpg","altText":"An Ilyushin Il-76 similar to the plane reportedly shot down","caption":"An Ilyushin Il-76 similar to the plane reportedly shot down","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Theron Kirkman\/AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1001,"height":563},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/98\/88\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d81b00db-adc5-523c-9142-84d92e2a429f-8779888.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":743}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":28556,"slug":"sudan-war","urlSafeValue":"sudan-war","title":"Sudan war","titleRaw":"Sudan war"},{"id":28432,"slug":"rsf","urlSafeValue":"rsf","title":"RSF - Sudan","titleRaw":"RSF - Sudan"},{"id":12992,"slug":"civial-aviation","urlSafeValue":"civial-aviation","title":"Civil Aviation","titleRaw":"Civil Aviation"},{"id":27924,"slug":"air-crash","urlSafeValue":"air-crash","title":"Air Crash","titleRaw":"Air Crash"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2658440},{"id":2567670}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP ","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Gregory Holyoke","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"africa","title":"Africa"},"country":{"id":263,"urlSafeValue":"sudan","title":"Sudan","url":"\/news\/africa\/sudan"},"town":{"id":3661,"urlSafeValue":"khartoum","title":"Khartoum"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80023001","80122009","84111001","84112005"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","human_made_disasters_high_medium_and_low_risk","law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_politics","law_government_and_politics"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2024\/10\/21\/russia-investigates-claims-of-cargo-jet-shot-down-in-sudan","lastModified":1729547221},{"id":2568478,"cid":8518758,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":"240620_E5WB_55846228","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"VIEW EU SUDAN WAR POLICY","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"EU should shift gears in the face of atrocities in Sudan","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"EU should shift gears in the face of atrocities in Sudan","titleListing2":"Opinion | The EU\u2019s response needs to echo the speed with which disaster is occurring on the ground. Residents of El Fasher and other civilians throughout Sudan deserve nothing less, Laetitia Bader writes.","leadin":"The EU\u2019s response needs to echo the speed with which disaster is occurring on the ground. Residents of El Fasher and other civilians throughout Sudan deserve nothing less, Laetitia Bader writes.","summary":"The EU\u2019s response needs to echo the speed with which disaster is occurring on the ground. Residents of El Fasher and other civilians throughout Sudan deserve nothing less, Laetitia Bader writes.","keySentence":"","url":"eu-should-shift-gears-in-face-of-atrocities-in-sudan","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/06\/20\/eu-should-shift-gears-in-face-of-atrocities-in-sudan","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"From the pace of the European Union's action on Sudan, no one would imagine that the country\u2019s Darfur region is burning once again. \n\n\u201cLife has simply completely stopped in the city because of heavy fighting and shelling. People are hiding in their homes, scared. They cannot go out even to get necessities.\u201d \n\nThese are the words of a volunteer in Sudan\u2019s north Darfur town of El Fasher, desperately trying to help civilians facing intense shelling, starvation and a communications shutdown hampering real-time reporting. \n\nDespite multiple warnings by the EU\u2019s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, the EU response has been grossly inadequate. \n\nIt set up a new sanctions regime in October 2023. But it has only used it to sanction entities connected to the warring parties, the Sudan military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and is still finalising a first list of individual sanctions against those implicated in atrocities against civilians. \n\nDespite blatant disregard for the laws of war by Sudan\u2019s belligerents, some EU member states apparently prefer to hope that they can convince the warring parties to end the fighting rather than act to build consequential international pressure. \n\nBurned to the ground\n\nThe situation in El Fasher comes on the heels of over a year of devastating conflict in which the competing forces have killed thousands of civilians, forced nearly 9 million people, many of them children, to flee their homes, and left millions at risk of starvation. \n\nBoth warring parties have deliberately obstructed humanitarian aid and indiscriminately shelled and bombed civilian neighbourhoods and infrastructure. \n\nMany residential neighbourhoods have been burnt to the ground in El Fasher, apparently by the RSF and their allies. \n\nTheir actions are eerily familiar to their atrocities we have documented against ethnic Massalit and other non-Arabs in El Geneina, West Darfur, last year. These mass killings, torture, arson, and sexual violence constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. \n\nIn El Fasher, both parties, particularly the RSF, have reportedly used imprecise explosive weaponry in densely populated areas. M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res said that the hospital it supports in El Fasher had received over 1,300 wounded between 10 May and 6 June, with over 200 dying from their injuries. \n\nOn 9 June, RSF forces stormed this same hospital, the only one in the town able to treat war-wounded, destroyed and looted medical equipment and supplies. The attack sent patients and staff running for their lives and forced the hospital to close.\n\nHarmed, trapped, shipwrecked\n\nAway from Darfur, the picture is also grim. On 5 June, the RSF attacked a village in al Jazira state, central Sudan, killing at least 100 people, including many children. In a statement following the attack, Borrell reminded abusers in the conflict that they will be held accountable.\n\nEven before events in El Fasher escalated, Sudan was the country with the highest rates of internal displacement. Hundreds of thousands more have since fled into neighbouring Chad, only to be met by a shockingly underfunded humanitarian response. \n\nRecent pledges at a conference on Sudan in Paris, organised by France, Germany and the EU, failed to bridge the gap. \n\nOver 500,000 Sudanese have also fled north toward Egypt, but thousands have been deported back to the war zone. Thousands of Sudanese have fled toward Libya or Tunisia, only to be trapped between the lack of protection there and EU policies externalising migration controls. \n\nIn February, dozens of young Sudanese were among the victims of a tragic shipwreck while seeking safety in Italy.\n\nThere is ample evidence available to the EU regarding the scale of the abuses, those responsible, and the intransigence of warring parties to inflict civilian harm. However, the EU still seems unwilling to use the spectrum of tools at its disposal to ensure accountability and protect civilians.\n\nSeveral EU counterparts have already sanctioned responsible individuals and entities, with the US leading the way. EU member states should follow suit and sanction top commanders implicated in widespread killings of civilians and deliberate obstruction of humanitarian assistance. \n\nBut sanctions should only form part of broader concerted global efforts to protect civilians and ensure consequences for these heinous crimes. \n\nIt's time to roll out and protect those in need\n\nPositively, on 24 May, the African Union Peace and Security Council called for the AU High-Level Panel on Sudan and the new AU special envoy on the prevention of genocide to develop a civilian protection plan. \n\nLast week, the UN Security Council finally adopted a resolution on the dramatic situation in Al Fasher and requested that the secretary-general make recommendations for protecting civilians in Sudan.\n\nThe EU and its member states should actively voice support for these calls and work with the AU, the UN and others \u2014 notably the UK and the US to identify the most relevant options to create and urgently roll out a force to protect civilians. \n\nThe EU should now act more decisively at the UN, encouraging the three African states on the UN Security Council to work toward deploying such a force. \n\nIt should also press for the full enforcement of the existing UN arms embargo on Darfur, calling out countries such as the United Arab Emirates violating it, and press for expanding it to all of Sudan. \n\nFinally, the EU should provide financial support and call for the protection of Sudanese local responders who are faced with providing civilians with support, food, and medical care. \n\nThe EU\u2019s response needs to echo the speed with which disaster is occurring on the ground. Residents of El Fasher and other civilians throughout Sudan deserve nothing less. \n\nLaetitia Bader is Deputy Africa Director at Human Rights Watch.\n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>From the pace of the European Union's action on Sudan, no one would imagine that the country\u2019s Darfur region is burning once again. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife has simply completely stopped in the city because of heavy fighting and shelling. People are hiding in their homes, scared. They cannot go out even to get necessities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>These are the words of a volunteer in Sudan\u2019s north Darfur town of El Fasher, desperately trying to help civilians facing intense shelling, starvation and a communications shutdown hampering real-time reporting. <\/p>\n<p>Despite multiple warnings by the EU\u2019s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, the EU response has been grossly inadequate. <\/p>\n<p>It set up a new sanctions regime in October 2023. But it has only used it to sanction entities connected to the warring parties, the Sudan military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and is still finalising a first list of individual sanctions against those implicated in atrocities against civilians. <\/p>\n<p>Despite blatant disregard for the laws of war by Sudan\u2019s belligerents, some EU member states apparently prefer to hope that they can convince the warring parties to end the fighting rather than act to build consequential international pressure. <\/p>\n<h2>Burned to the ground<\/h2><p>The situation in El Fasher comes on the heels of over a year of devastating conflict in which the competing forces have killed thousands of civilians, forced nearly 9 million people, many of them children, to flee their homes, and left millions at risk of starvation. <\/p>\n<p>Both warring parties have deliberately obstructed humanitarian aid and indiscriminately shelled and bombed civilian neighbourhoods and infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>Many residential neighbourhoods have been burnt to the ground in El Fasher, apparently by the RSF and their allies. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Even before events in El Fasher escalated, Sudan was the country with the highest rates of internal displacement. Hundreds of thousands more have since fled into neighbouring Chad, only to be met by a shockingly underfunded humanitarian response. <\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//51//87//58//808x539_cmsv2_fdb2296f-38bd-5cba-88a1-6464a523f5ed-8518758.jpg/" alt=\"Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border, April 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/51\/87\/58\/384x256_cmsv2_fdb2296f-38bd-5cba-88a1-6464a523f5ed-8518758.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/51\/87\/58\/640x427_cmsv2_fdb2296f-38bd-5cba-88a1-6464a523f5ed-8518758.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/51\/87\/58\/750x500_cmsv2_fdb2296f-38bd-5cba-88a1-6464a523f5ed-8518758.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/51\/87\/58\/828x552_cmsv2_fdb2296f-38bd-5cba-88a1-6464a523f5ed-8518758.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/51\/87\/58\/1080x720_cmsv2_fdb2296f-38bd-5cba-88a1-6464a523f5ed-8518758.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/51\/87\/58\/1200x800_cmsv2_fdb2296f-38bd-5cba-88a1-6464a523f5ed-8518758.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/51\/87\/58\/1920x1281_cmsv2_fdb2296f-38bd-5cba-88a1-6464a523f5ed-8518758.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border, April 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Patricia Simon<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Their actions are eerily familiar to their atrocities we have documented against ethnic Massalit and other non-Arabs in El Geneina, West Darfur, last year. These mass killings, torture, arson, and sexual violence constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8515982,8374590\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//04//15//germany-pledges-millions-in-aid-for-sudan-on-anniversary-of-war/">World donors pledge millions in aid for Sudan on anniversary of war<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//06//19//uae-accused-of-fueling-war-by-providing-weapons-to-sudans-paramilitary-rivals/">UAE accused of fueling war by providing weapons to Sudan's paramilitary rivals<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In El Fasher, both parties, particularly the RSF, have reportedly used imprecise explosive weaponry in densely populated areas. M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res said that the hospital it supports in El Fasher had received over 1,300 wounded between 10 May and 6 June, with over 200 dying from their injuries. <\/p>\n<p>On 9 June, RSF forces stormed this same hospital, the only one in the town able to treat war-wounded, destroyed and looted medical equipment and supplies. The attack sent patients and staff running for their lives and forced the hospital to close.<\/p>\n<h2>Harmed, trapped, shipwrecked<\/h2><p>Away from Darfur, the picture is also grim. On 5 June, the RSF attacked a village in al Jazira state, central Sudan, killing at least 100 people, including many children. In a statement following the attack, Borrell reminded abusers in the conflict that they will be held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Even before events in El Fasher escalated, Sudan was the country with the highest rates of internal displacement. Hundreds of thousands more have since fled into neighbouring Chad, only to be met by a shockingly underfunded humanitarian response. <\/p>\n<p>Recent pledges at a conference on Sudan in Paris, organised by France, Germany and the EU, failed to bridge the gap. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Over 500,000 Sudanese have also fled north toward Egypt, but thousands have been deported back to the war zone. Thousands of Sudanese have fled toward Libya or Tunisia, only to be trapped between the lack of protection there and EU policies externalising migration controls. <\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.66796875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//49//63//48//808x539_cmsv2_4f026010-6332-5df2-8f90-b6f64305408c-8496348.jpg/" alt=\"Civilians who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan, May 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/49\/63\/48\/384x257_cmsv2_4f026010-6332-5df2-8f90-b6f64305408c-8496348.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/49\/63\/48\/640x428_cmsv2_4f026010-6332-5df2-8f90-b6f64305408c-8496348.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/49\/63\/48\/750x501_cmsv2_4f026010-6332-5df2-8f90-b6f64305408c-8496348.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/49\/63\/48\/828x553_cmsv2_4f026010-6332-5df2-8f90-b6f64305408c-8496348.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/49\/63\/48\/1080x721_cmsv2_4f026010-6332-5df2-8f90-b6f64305408c-8496348.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/49\/63\/48\/1200x802_cmsv2_4f026010-6332-5df2-8f90-b6f64305408c-8496348.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/49\/63\/48\/1920x1283_cmsv2_4f026010-6332-5df2-8f90-b6f64305408c-8496348.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Civilians who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan, May 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Sam Mednick<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Over 500,000 Sudanese have also fled north toward Egypt, but thousands have been deported back to the war zone. Thousands of Sudanese have fled toward Libya or Tunisia, only to be trapped between the lack of protection there and EU policies externalising migration controls. <\/p>\n<p>In February, dozens of young Sudanese were among the victims of a tragic shipwreck while seeking safety in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>There is ample evidence available to the EU regarding the scale of the abuses, those responsible, and the intransigence of warring parties to inflict civilian harm. However, the EU still seems unwilling to use the spectrum of tools at its disposal to ensure accountability and protect civilians.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8289986,8073602\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//11//29//how-many-times-can-we-say-never-again-again/">How many times can we say 'never again' again?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//03//07//world-food-programme-sudans-war-risks-creating-worlds-largest-hunger-crisis/">WFO: Sudan's war risks creating 'world's largest hunger crisis'<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Several EU counterparts have already sanctioned responsible individuals and entities, with the US leading the way. EU member states should follow suit and sanction top commanders implicated in widespread killings of civilians and deliberate obstruction of humanitarian assistance. <\/p>\n<p>But sanctions should only form part of broader concerted global efforts to protect civilians and ensure consequences for these heinous crimes. <\/p>\n<h2>It's time to roll out and protect those in need<\/h2><p>Positively, on 24 May, the African Union Peace and Security Council called for the AU High-Level Panel on Sudan and the new AU special envoy on the prevention of genocide to develop a civilian protection plan. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, the UN Security Council finally adopted a resolution on the dramatic situation in Al Fasher and requested that the secretary-general make recommendations for protecting civilians in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>The EU and its member states should actively voice support for these calls and work with the AU, the UN and others \u2014 notably the UK and the US to identify the most relevant options to create and urgently roll out a force to protect civilians. <\/p>\n<p>The EU should now act more decisively at the UN, encouraging the three African states on the UN Security Council to work toward deploying such a force. <\/p>\n<p>It should also press for the full enforcement of the existing UN arms embargo on Darfur, calling out countries such as the United Arab Emirates violating it, and press for expanding it to all of Sudan. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, the EU should provide financial support and call for the protection of Sudanese local responders who are faced with providing civilians with support, food, and medical care. <\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s response needs to echo the speed with which disaster is occurring on the ground. Residents of El Fasher and other civilians throughout Sudan deserve nothing less. <\/p>\n<p><em>Laetitia Bader is Deputy Africa Director at Human Rights Watch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/news/africa/\"mailto:view@euronews.com\">view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1718895826,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1718898884,"firstPublishedAt":1718898884,"lastPublishedAt":1718899020,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/51\/87\/58\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0d38c8d7-7e3a-5541-aeb9-30b4e4f4fb78-8518758.jpg","altText":"Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit in the East Nile province, June 2019","caption":"Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit in the East Nile province, June 2019","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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UAE ARMING PARAMILITARIES","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"UAE accused of fueling war by providing weapons to Sudan's paramilitary rivals","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Sudan accuses UAE of fueling war in the country","titleListing2":"Sudan's government accuses UAE of fueling war by providing weapons to paramilitary rivals, an accusation the UAE has dismissed as \u201cludicrous\u201d ","leadin":"Over 14,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured in the conflict raging since early 2023, according to the UN.","summary":"Over 14,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured in the conflict raging since early 2023, according to the UN.","keySentence":"","url":"uae-accused-of-fueling-war-by-providing-weapons-to-sudans-paramilitary-rivals","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/06\/19\/uae-accused-of-fueling-war-by-providing-weapons-to-sudans-paramilitary-rivals","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Sudanese government on Tuesday accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of fueling the 14-month war in the African country by providing weapons to a rival paramilitary force.\n\nThe UAE dismissed the allegation as \"ludicrous,\" calling it \"a shameful abuse by one of the warring parties\".\n\nThe clash came during a UN Security Council meeting at which Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee warned that atrocities are being committed along ethnic lines in Sudan's western Darfur region.\n\nShe urged an immediate cease-fire in the North Darfur capital, El Fasher, which is besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces \"to prevent further atrocities, protect critical infrastructure, and alleviate civilian suffering.\"\n\nSudanese Ambassador Al-Harith Mohamed accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of \"destructively launching\" its war with the Sudanese military and attacking civilians, aided by weapons from the UAE.\n\nHe said that Sudan has evidence of the UAE supplying weapons and that the government will submit a file on UAE actions to the International Criminal Court.\n\nThe UAE's ambassador, Mohamed Abushahab, said those were \"false allegations\" and demanded to know why Sudan's government refused to return to peace talks.\n\nTurning to Sudan's ambassador seated beside him at the Security Council's horseshoe-shaped table, Abushahab said, \"You should stop grandstanding in international fora such as this and instead take responsibility for ending the conflict you started.\"\n\nArms embargo monitors claim 'credible evidence'\n\nUN experts monitoring an arms embargo in Darfur reported \"credible\" evidence in January that the UAE sent weapons to the Rapid Support Forces several times a week from northern Chad. \n\nUS Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Tuesday reiterated an appeal to all \"external actors to stop fueling and prolonging this conflict and enabling these atrocities by sending weapons to Sudan.\"\n\nSpeaking to reporters after the meeting, Sudan's Mohamed urged the council to \"walk the extra mile by naming and shaming the United Arab Emirates.\"\n\nEdem Wosornu, operations director for the UN humanitarian office, told the council the lives of 800,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher \"hang in the balance,\" echoing the risk of mass atrocities and warning that the violence in the encircled city \"is just the tip of the iceberg.\"\n\nShe said indiscriminate bombings are affecting millions of people in Darfur, sexual violence remains rampant, and \"famine is imminent.\" \n\nAlmost 5 million people face emergency levels of food insecurity and over 2 million in 41 \"hunger hotspots are at high risk of slipping into catastrophic hunger in the coming weeks,\" Wosornu said.\n\nSudan's internal displacement surpasses 10 million\n\nSudan plunged into conflict again in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital, Khartoum, and spread to other regions, including Darfur. \n\nThe UN says over 14,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured.\n\nThe paramilitary Rapid Support Forces were formed from Janjaweed fighters by then Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled the country for three decades before being overthrown during a popular uprising in 2019. \n\nHe is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and other crimes during the conflict in Darfur in the 2000s.\n\nLast Thursday, the Security Council adopted a resolution demanding the Rapid Support Forces immediately halt its siege of El Fasher \u2014 the only capital in Darfur it doesn't control. \n\nThe council also urged the paramilitary force and Sudan's military \"to seek an immediate cessation of hostilities\".\n\nTwo decades ago, Darfur became synonymous with genocide and war crimes, particularly by the notorious Janjaweed Arab militias, against populations that identify as Central or East African. \n\nUp to 300,000 people were killed, and 2.7 million were driven from their homes.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Sudanese government on Tuesday accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of fueling the 14-month war in the African country by providing weapons to a rival paramilitary force.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE dismissed the allegation as \"ludicrous,\" calling it \"a shameful abuse by one of the warring parties\".<\/p>\n<p>The clash came during a UN Security Council meeting at which Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee warned that atrocities are being committed along ethnic lines in Sudan's western Darfur region.<\/p>\n<p>She urged an immediate cease-fire in the North Darfur capital, El Fasher, which is besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces \"to prevent further atrocities, protect critical infrastructure, and alleviate civilian suffering.\"<\/p>\n<p>Sudanese Ambassador Al-Harith Mohamed accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of \"destructively launching\" its war with the Sudanese military and attacking civilians, aided by weapons from the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Sudan has evidence of the UAE supplying weapons and that the government will submit a file on UAE actions to the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7583524,8289986\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//05//un-seven-children-killed-or-wounded-every-hour-in-sudan-war/">UN: Seven children killed or wounded every hour in Sudan war<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//03//07//world-food-programme-sudans-war-risks-creating-worlds-largest-hunger-crisis/">WFO: Sudan's war risks creating 'world's largest hunger crisis'<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The UAE's ambassador, Mohamed Abushahab, said those were \"false allegations\" and demanded to know why Sudan's government refused to return to peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to Sudan's ambassador seated beside him at the Security Council's horseshoe-shaped table, Abushahab said, \"You should stop grandstanding in international fora such as this and instead take responsibility for ending the conflict you started.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Arms embargo monitors claim 'credible evidence'<\/h2><p>UN experts monitoring an arms embargo in Darfur reported \"credible\" evidence in January that the UAE sent weapons to the Rapid Support Forces several times a week from northern Chad. <\/p>\n<p>US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Tuesday reiterated an appeal to all \"external actors to stop fueling and prolonging this conflict and enabling these atrocities by sending weapons to Sudan.\"<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Sudan's Mohamed urged the council to \"walk the extra mile by naming and shaming the United Arab Emirates.\"<\/p>\n<p>Edem Wosornu, operations director for the UN humanitarian office, told the council the lives of 800,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher \"hang in the balance,\" echoing the risk of mass atrocities and warning that the violence in the encircled city \"is just the tip of the iceberg.\"<\/p>\n<p>She said indiscriminate bombings are affecting millions of people in Darfur, sexual violence remains rampant, and \"famine is imminent.\" <\/p>\n<p>Almost 5 million people face emergency levels of food insecurity and over 2 million in 41 \"hunger hotspots are at high risk of slipping into catastrophic hunger in the coming weeks,\" Wosornu said.<\/p>\n<h2>Sudan's internal displacement surpasses 10 million<\/h2><p>Sudan plunged into conflict again in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital, Khartoum, and spread to other regions, including Darfur. <\/p>\n<p>The UN says over 14,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured.<\/p>\n<p>The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces were formed from Janjaweed fighters by then Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled the country for three decades before being overthrown during a popular uprising in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>He is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and other crimes during the conflict in Darfur in the 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, the Security Council adopted a resolution demanding the Rapid Support Forces immediately halt its siege of El Fasher \u2014 the only capital in Darfur it doesn't control. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7611010,8073602\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//17//what-is-at-stake-for-europe-as-war-in-sudan-rages-on-and-a-regional-crisis-looms/">What is at stake for Europe as war in Sudan rages on and a regional crisis looms?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//11//29//how-many-times-can-we-say-never-again-again/">How many times can we say 'never again' again?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The council also urged the paramilitary force and Sudan's military \"to seek an immediate cessation of hostilities\".<\/p>\n<p>Two decades ago, Darfur became synonymous with genocide and war crimes, particularly by the notorious Janjaweed Arab militias, against populations that identify as Central or East African. <\/p>\n<p>Up to 300,000 people were killed, and 2.7 million were driven from their homes.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1718812093,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1718823125,"firstPublishedAt":1718823125,"lastPublishedAt":1718824716,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/49\/44\/50\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_fb5beeef-9bdb-5cc5-ac45-ebe9f3b5cc2d-8494450.jpg","altText":"FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends ","caption":"FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Hussein Malla\/Copyright 2019 The AP. All rights reserved.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":697}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":28556,"slug":"sudan-war","urlSafeValue":"sudan-war","title":"Sudan war","titleRaw":"Sudan war"},{"id":290,"slug":"united-arab-emirates","urlSafeValue":"united-arab-emirates","title":"United Arab Emirates","titleRaw":"United Arab Emirates"},{"id":292,"slug":"united-nations","urlSafeValue":"united-nations","title":"United Nations","titleRaw":"United Nations"},{"id":28432,"slug":"rsf","urlSafeValue":"rsf","title":"RSF - Sudan","titleRaw":"RSF - Sudan"},{"id":27944,"slug":"arms-delivery","urlSafeValue":"arms-delivery","title":"arms delivery","titleRaw":"arms delivery"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":2}],"related":[{"id":2522070},{"id":2494338},{"id":2659616}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"africa","title":"Africa"},"country":{"id":263,"urlSafeValue":"sudan","title":"Sudan","url":"\/news\/africa\/sudan"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gb_death_injury_high_med','gb_death_injury_high_med_low','gb_death_injury_news-ent','gt_negative','neg_saudiaramco','neg_mobkoi_castrol','neg_facebook_q4','neg_facebook','gv_military','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','pos_ukraine-russia','gs_politics','gv_death_injury','neg_facebook_neg1','shadow9hu7_pos_ukrainecrisis','gt_negative_anger','gs_science','gs_science_geography','gs_war_conflict','gv_crime','gt_negative_fear','gb_death_injury_high','gb_death_injury_serious','gs_politics_issues_policy','gs_politics_misc','gb_crime_high_med','gb_crime_high_med_low','gb_crime_news-ent','gb_crime_edu','gb_arms_high_med','gb_arms_high_med_low','gb_arms_news-ent','gb_death_injury_edu','gs_busfin_indus'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet-web","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2024\/06\/19\/uae-accused-of-fueling-war-by-providing-weapons-to-sudans-paramilitary-rivals","lastModified":1718824716},{"id":2522070,"cid":8374590,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":"240415_NWSU_55301735","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"SUDAN DONOR CONFERENCE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"World donors pledge millions in aid for Sudan on anniversary of war","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"World donors pledge millions for Sudan on anniversary of war","titleListing2":"World donors pledge millions in aid for Sudan on anniversary of war.","leadin":"\u201cWe cannot let this nightmare slide from view,\u201d warned the UN chief.","summary":"\u201cWe cannot let this nightmare slide from view,\u201d warned the UN chief.","keySentence":"","url":"germany-pledges-millions-in-aid-for-sudan-on-anniversary-of-war","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/04\/15\/germany-pledges-millions-in-aid-for-sudan-on-anniversary-of-war","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"France has said that world donors have pledged more than two billion euros in humanitarian aid for Sudan. \n\nEuropean diplomats and aid groups met in Paris in a bid to drum up financial support for the country on the first anniversary of a power struggle that exploded into civil war. \n\n\u201cThe first thing that we have to do is to make sure that Sudan is not forgotten,\u201d said EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic. \n\n\u201cThe people caught in this emergency are almost completely invisible. Other devastating crises have overtaken the news from around the world\u2026 Sudan is in a state of collapse.\u201d \n\nA UN humanitarian campaign aims to raise around $2.7 billion (\u20ac2.5 billion) this year to get food, healthcare and other supplies to 24 million people in Sudan \u2013 nearly half the population. \n\nBut the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says so far funders have given only $145 million (\u20ac136 million), representing around 5% of the target. \n\n\u201cOne year has passed since the outbreak of conflict in Sudan, which unleashed the catalogue of horrors, a nightmare of bloodshed that has killed over 14,000 people and injured 33,000 more,\u201d said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. \n\nSudan descended into conflict in April 2023 when a simmering power struggle between the army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group descended into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere across the country. \n\nThe UN estimates around 37% of the population suffers from hunger. \n\nSave the Children has warned that 230,000 children, pregnant women and newborn mothers could die of malnutrition in the coming months.\u00a0 \n\nNearly nine million people have been forced to flee their homes either to safer areas inside Sudan or to neighbouring countries. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>France has said that world donors have pledged more than two billion euros in humanitarian aid for Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>European diplomats and aid groups met in Paris in a bid to drum up financial support for the country on the first anniversary of a power struggle that exploded into civil war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing that we have to do is to make sure that Sudan is not forgotten,\u201d said EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people caught in this emergency are almost completely invisible. Other devastating crises have overtaken the news from around the world\u2026 Sudan is in a state of collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">The country has turned into one of the worst humanitarian disasters ever on the African continent.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Janez Lenarcic\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n EU Commissioner for Crisis Management\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A UN humanitarian campaign aims to raise around $2.7 billion (\u20ac2.5 billion) this year to get food, healthcare and other supplies to 24 million people in Sudan \u2013 nearly half the population.<\/p>\n<p>But the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says so far funders have given only $145 million (\u20ac136 million), representing around 5% of the target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne year has passed since the outbreak of conflict in Sudan, which unleashed the catalogue of horrors, a nightmare of bloodshed that has killed over 14,000 people and injured 33,000 more,\u201d said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//37//45//90//808x454_cmsv2_fabd65f0-5031-5ed4-b30a-8c14df357b07-8374590.jpg/" alt=\"Refugees disembark from a truck transporting new arrivals to transit centre in South Sudan&apos;s Upper Nile state.\" 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UNSC Sudan Ramadan","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"UN Security Council calls for Sudan ceasefire over Ramadan","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"UN Security Council calls for Sudan ceasefire over Ramadan","titleListing2":"UN Security Council calls for Sudan ceasefire over Ramadan","leadin":"The UN Security Council has urged for a ceasefire in Sudan over the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in order to facilitate aid for those in need.","summary":"The UN Security Council has urged for a ceasefire in Sudan over the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in order to facilitate aid for those in need.","keySentence":"","url":"un-security-council-calls-for-sudan-ceasefire-over-ramadan","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/03\/09\/un-security-council-calls-for-sudan-ceasefire-over-ramadan","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The UN Security Council urged Sudan\u2019s warring parties on Friday to immediately halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and allow aid to get to 25 million people in desperate need of food and other assistance. \n\nRamadan is expected to begin on or around Monday, depending on the sighting of the crescent moon. \n\nThe 15-member council voted overwhelmingly in favour of the British-drafted resolution, with 14 countries in support and only Russia abstaining. \n\nSudan plunged into chaos in April, when long-simmering tensions between its military, led by General Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo broke out into street battles in the capital, Khartoum. \n\nFighting spread to other parts of the country, especially urban areas, but in Sudan\u2019s western Darfur region it took on a different form, with brutal attacks by the Arab-dominated Rapid Support Forces on ethnic African civilians. Thousands of people have been killed. \n\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged both sides on Thursday to support a Ramadan ceasefire, warning that the nearly year-long conflict threatens the country\u2019s unity and \u201ccould ignite regional instability of dramatic proportions.\u201d The African Union also backed a halt to fighting during Ramadan. \n\nBurhan welcomed the UN chief\u2019s appeal, but the Sudanese Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Friday listing a number of conditions for a ceasefire to be effective. The Rapid Support Forces have not responded. \n\nThe resolution expresses \u201cgrave concern over the spreading violence and the catastrophic and deteriorating humanitarian situation, including crisis levels, or worse, of acute food insecurity, particularly in Darfur.\u201d \n\nBritain\u2019s deputy UN ambassador James Kariuki urged the Sudanese armed forces and Rapid Support Forces \u201cto act on this united international call for peace and to silence the guns.\u201d \n\nThe Security Council urged the warring parties \u201cto seek a sustainable resolution to the conflict through dialogue,\u201d and Kariuki called on the two sides to work to restore peace. \n\nRussia\u2019s deputy UN ambassador Anna Evstigneeva accused the Security Council of \u201cdouble standards\u201d \u2013 calling for a ceasefire in Sudan and \u201cdragging out\u201d adoption of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, pointing to US vetoes of a ceasefire resolution and calling this \u201chypocrisy.\u201d \n\nShe claimed most elements in Friday's resolution are already being done, stressing that ending the violence shouldn\u2019t just be the aim of the Security Council \u201cbut most importantly of the Sudanese people themselves.\u201d Nonetheless, Russia decided to let the resolution through \u201cbecause it is a question of the lives of the Sudanese people who are suffering across the country from the consequences of the conflict,\u201d she said. \n\nAccording to the UN humanitarian office, 8.3 million people have been forcibly displaced by fighting between government and paramilitary forces, half of the country\u2019s 51 million people need aid, and 70% to 80% of health facilities aren\u2019t functioning. \n\nU.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said if a Ramadan ceasefire is observed by both sides, \"I can assure you we\u2019ll be piling in the aid and repositioning, repairing institutions, getting children out to safety and so forth.\u201d \n\nThe number of Sudanese who are hungry and \u201cfood insecure\u201d has increased by 10 million since last year because of the conflict, he said, warning of moves toward famine because of \u201cdisinterest\u201d in the Sudan conflict by the rest of the world. \n\nGriffiths told a group of reporters on Friday that he has personally been trying to get the rival commanders together in person or virtually to agree on access for humanitarian aid and workers, so far unsuccessfully. \n\n\u201cWhat we need is a political process,\u201d he said, stressing that instability in Sudan has an impact beyond its borders because of its strategic location. \n\nThe impact has been seen in neighbouring Chad, which is hosting over 550,000 Sudanese refugees mainly from neighbouring Darfur as well as the Central African Republic and westward through Africa to the Sahel, Griffiths said. In addition, Sudan borders the Red Sea where Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels are attacking ships to try to spur a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. \n\nGriffiths said the $2.7 billion UN humanitarian appeal for Sudan this year is just 4% funded and urged donors to respond urgently. \n\nHe welcomed France\u2019s announcement last month that it will hold a ministerial meeting in mid-April to help Sudan and its neighbours deal with the humanitarian consequences of the conflict. \n\nAddressing the Security Council on Thursday, secretary-general Guterres pointed to renewed offensives and growing fears of a further expansion of hostilities in eastern Sudan, calls for arming civilians in various states, and armed groups entering the fighting in western Darfur and South Kordofan. \n\nBut Sudan\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Friday set conditions for a ceasefire, saying the RSF should withdraw from all provinces they have taken control of since the conflict erupted, return all \u201clooted\u201d public and private property and stop human rights violations including \u201catrocities\u201d their fighters have committed especially in Darfur. \n\nIn blaming the RSF for the ongoing conflict, the ministry said, \u201cWe are certain that the terrorist militia that launched a war against the state and the people in Ramadan last year has no moral, religious or national obligations that would make it respect the sanctity of the holy month.\u201d \n\nTwo decades ago, Sudan\u2019s vast western Darfur region became synonymous with genocide and war crimes, particularly by the notorious Janjaweed Arab militias against populations that identify as Central or East African. \n\nThe International Criminal Court\u2019s prosecutor, Karim Khan, said in late January there are grounds to believe both sides in the current conflict are committing possible war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide in Darfur. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The UN Security Council urged Sudan\u2019s warring parties on Friday to immediately halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and allow aid to get to 25 million people in desperate need of food and other assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Ramadan is expected to begin on or around Monday, depending on the sighting of the crescent moon.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-member council voted overwhelmingly in favour of the British-drafted resolution, with 14 countries in support and only Russia abstaining.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1766238258290139548\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sudan plunged into chaos in April, when long-simmering tensions between its military, led by General Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo broke out into street battles in the capital, Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting spread to other parts of the country, especially urban areas, but in Sudan\u2019s western Darfur region it took on a different form, with brutal attacks by the Arab-dominated Rapid Support Forces on ethnic African civilians. Thousands of people have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged both sides on Thursday to support a Ramadan ceasefire, warning that the nearly year-long conflict threatens the country\u2019s unity and \u201ccould ignite regional instability of dramatic proportions.\u201d The African Union also backed a halt to fighting during Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>Burhan welcomed the UN chief\u2019s appeal, but the Sudanese Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Friday listing a number of conditions for a ceasefire to be effective. The Rapid Support Forces have not responded.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution expresses \u201cgrave concern over the spreading violence and the catastrophic and deteriorating humanitarian situation, including crisis levels, or worse, of acute food insecurity, particularly in Darfur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s deputy UN ambassador James Kariuki urged the Sudanese armed forces and Rapid Support Forces \u201cto act on this united international call for peace and to silence the guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Security Council urged the warring parties \u201cto seek a sustainable resolution to the conflict through dialogue,\u201d and Kariuki called on the two sides to work to restore peace.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s deputy UN ambassador Anna Evstigneeva accused the Security Council of \u201cdouble standards\u201d \u2013 calling for a ceasefire in Sudan and \u201cdragging out\u201d adoption of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, pointing to US vetoes of a ceasefire resolution and calling this \u201chypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She claimed most elements in Friday&#039;s resolution are already being done, stressing that ending the violence shouldn\u2019t just be the aim of the Security Council \u201cbut most importantly of the Sudanese people themselves.\u201d Nonetheless, Russia decided to let the resolution through \u201cbecause it is a question of the lives of the Sudanese people who are suffering across the country from the consequences of the conflict,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN humanitarian office, 8.3 million people have been forcibly displaced by fighting between government and paramilitary forces, half of the country\u2019s 51 million people need aid, and 70% to 80% of health facilities aren\u2019t functioning.<\/p>\n<p>U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said if a Ramadan ceasefire is observed by both sides, \"I can assure you we\u2019ll be piling in the aid and repositioning, repairing institutions, getting children out to safety and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The number of Sudanese who are <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//03//07//world-food-programme-sudans-war-risks-creating-worlds-largest-hunger-crisis/">hungry and \u201cfood insecure\u201d has increased by 10 million since last year because of the conflict, he said, warning of moves toward famine because of \u201cdisinterest\u201d in the Sudan conflict by the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Griffiths told a group of reporters on Friday that he has personally been trying to get the rival commanders together in person or virtually to agree on access for humanitarian aid and workers, so far unsuccessfully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we need is a political process,\u201d he said, stressing that instability in Sudan has an impact beyond its borders because of its strategic location.<\/p>\n<p>The impact has been seen in neighbouring Chad, which is hosting over 550,000 Sudanese refugees mainly from neighbouring Darfur as well as the Central African Republic and westward through Africa to the Sahel, Griffiths said. In addition, Sudan borders the Red Sea where Yemen\u2019s <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//03//07//first-fatal-attack-by-houthis-kills-three-in-red-sea/">Houthi rebels<\/strong><\/a> are attacking ships to try to spur a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Griffiths said the $2.7 billion UN humanitarian appeal for Sudan this year is just 4% funded and urged donors to respond urgently.<\/p>\n<p>He welcomed France\u2019s announcement last month that it will hold a ministerial meeting in mid-April to help Sudan and its neighbours deal with the humanitarian consequences of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Security Council on Thursday, secretary-general Guterres pointed to renewed offensives and growing fears of a further expansion of hostilities in eastern Sudan, calls for arming civilians in various states, and armed groups entering the fighting in western Darfur and South Kordofan.<\/p>\n<p>But Sudan\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Friday set conditions for a ceasefire, saying the RSF should withdraw from all provinces they have taken control of since the conflict erupted, return all \u201clooted\u201d public and private property and stop human rights violations including \u201catrocities\u201d their fighters have committed especially in Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>In blaming the RSF for the ongoing conflict, the ministry said, \u201cWe are certain that the terrorist militia that launched a war against the state and the people in Ramadan last year has no moral, religious or national obligations that would make it respect the sanctity of the holy month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two decades ago, Sudan\u2019s vast western Darfur region became synonymous with genocide and war crimes, particularly by the notorious Janjaweed Arab militias against populations that identify as Central or East African.<\/p>\n<p>The International Criminal Court\u2019s prosecutor, Karim Khan, said in late January there are grounds to believe both sides in the current conflict are committing possible war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide in Darfur.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1709951632,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1709979836,"firstPublishedAt":1709979839,"lastPublishedAt":1709979839,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/26\/18\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_57e1b485-049b-5e8d-99fb-f780f851ee2f-8261890.jpg","altText":"People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023","caption":"People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Associated Press","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":768},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/29\/54\/82\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5b658adf-3cc0-5ba3-a6ea-5deb16cc71c4-8295482.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Brian Inganga\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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Among them are 5 million who face starvation. \n\nSudan was plunged into chaos in April last year when clashes erupted in the capital, Khartoum, between the country\u2019s military and a paramilitary group known as Rapid Support Forces. \n\nThe fighting quickly spread across the nation, largely affecting urban areas but also reaching the restive western Darfur region. Thousands of people have died since the violence began; in one incident, 10,000 and 15,000 were killed when paramilitary forces and allied Arab militias rampaged through a Darfur town. \n\nTwo decades ago, Darfur became synonymous with genocide and war crimes, particularly by the notorious Janjaweed Arab militias, against populations that identify as Central or East African. \n\nThat history has now resurfaced. The International Criminal Court\u2019s prosecutor Karim Khan saying in late January there are grounds to believe both sides are committing possible war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide in Darfur. \n\nThe conflict has uprooted more than 10 million people either to safer areas inside Sudan or to neighbouring countries, according to UN agencies. South Sudan alone has received 600,000 people who fled the fighting. \n\nOnce in South Sudan, \u201cone in five children in border transit centres suffers from malnutrition,\u201d the WFP said. \n\nMcCain called for the warring parties to stop fighting and allow humanitarian agencies to provide life-saving assistance. Aid has been further disrupted after authorities revoked permits for cross-border truck convoys, WFP said. That forced the suspension of operations from Chad to Darfur. \n\n\u201cThe consequences of inaction go far beyond a mother unable to feed her child and will shape the region for years to come,\u201d McCain said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A ruinous conflict raging for about a year between rival generals in Sudan risks creating the world\u2019s largest hunger crisis, the top UN food official warned on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0global attention has been focused on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza,\u00a0Cindy McCain, head of the World Food Program, said the fighting in Sudan has shattered the lives of millions across the north-eastern African nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe war in Sudan risks triggering the world\u2019s largest hunger crisis,\u201d McCain said as she wrapped up a trip to neighbouring South Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of Sudanese have fled the fighting in their home country.<\/p>\n<p>The UN food agency said some 18 million people across Sudan face acute hunger, with the most desperate trapped behind the front lines. Among them are 5 million who face starvation.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan was plunged into chaos in April last year when clashes erupted in the capital, Khartoum, between the country\u2019s military and a paramilitary group known as Rapid Support Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting quickly spread across the nation, largely affecting urban areas but also reaching the restive western Darfur region. Thousands of people have died since the violence began; in one incident, 10,000 and 15,000 were killed when paramilitary forces and allied Arab militias rampaged through a Darfur town.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//29//05//98//808x608_cmsv2_8b2ec2c5-8a62-50e1-a316-3943160cf71f-8290598.jpg/" alt=\"Residents displaced from a surge of violent attacks squat on blankets and in hastily made tents in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/29\/05\/98\/384x288_cmsv2_8b2ec2c5-8a62-50e1-a316-3943160cf71f-8290598.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/29\/05\/98\/640x480_cmsv2_8b2ec2c5-8a62-50e1-a316-3943160cf71f-8290598.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/29\/05\/98\/750x563_cmsv2_8b2ec2c5-8a62-50e1-a316-3943160cf71f-8290598.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/29\/05\/98\/828x621_cmsv2_8b2ec2c5-8a62-50e1-a316-3943160cf71f-8290598.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/29\/05\/98\/1080x810_cmsv2_8b2ec2c5-8a62-50e1-a316-3943160cf71f-8290598.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/29\/05\/98\/1200x900_cmsv2_8b2ec2c5-8a62-50e1-a316-3943160cf71f-8290598.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/29\/05\/98\/1920x1440_cmsv2_8b2ec2c5-8a62-50e1-a316-3943160cf71f-8290598.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Residents displaced from a surge of violent attacks squat on blankets and in hastily made tents in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mustafa Younes\/Mustafa Younes<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Two decades ago, Darfur became synonymous with genocide and war crimes, particularly by the notorious Janjaweed Arab militias, against populations that identify as Central or East African.<\/p>\n<p>That history has now resurfaced. The International Criminal Court\u2019s prosecutor Karim Khan saying in late January there are grounds to believe both sides are committing possible war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide in Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has uprooted more than 10 million people either to safer areas inside Sudan or to neighbouring countries, according to UN agencies. South Sudan alone has received 600,000 people who fled the fighting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">\u201cTwenty years ago, Darfur was the world\u2019s largest hunger crisis and the world rallied to respond. 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That forced the suspension of operations from Chad to Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe consequences of inaction go far beyond a mother unable to feed her child and will shape the region for years to come,\u201d McCain said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1709767371,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1709817104,"firstPublishedAt":1709817107,"lastPublishedAt":1709817499,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/28\/99\/86\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4d88bd19-e0ba-5878-bf26-3a130b313a4a-8289986.jpg","altText":"People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023.","caption":"People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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Fighting broke out in mid-April between the military and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. \n\nThe conflict derailed Sudanese hopes of restoring the country\u2019s fragile transition to democracy, which had begun after a popular uprising resulted in the military\u2019s removal of long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. \n\nOver 238,000 refugees have fled to Chad since the conflict began in April, with a massive influx seen in the past few weeks as fighting in Darfur has intensified. \n\nTwenty-thousand people have arrived in Adr\u00e9, a small Chadian town near the border, in the last week alone, according to the World Food Programme. \n\nThese areas are at risk of being cut off as the rainy season begins, making roads impassable. 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Fighting broke out in mid-April between the military and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict derailed Sudanese hopes of restoring the country\u2019s fragile transition to democracy, which had begun after a popular uprising resulted in the military\u2019s removal of long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Over 238,000 refugees have fled to Chad since the conflict began in April, with a massive influx seen in the past few weeks as fighting in Darfur has intensified.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-thousand people have arrived in Adr\u00e9, a small Chadian town near the border, in the last week alone, according to the World Food Programme.<\/p>\n<p>These areas are at risk of being cut off as the rainy season begins, making roads impassable. 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CEASFIRE UNSURE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Sudan's latest ceasefire fails to hold despite truce extension","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Sudan's latest ceasefire fails to hold despite truce extension","titleListing2":"The latest ceasefire in Sudan between the Army and the Rapid Support Forces fails to hold as fighting flared in the capital on Tuesday, despite the truce being extended.","leadin":"The latest ceasefire in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces fails to hold as fighting flared in the capital on Tuesday despite the truce being extended.","summary":"The latest ceasefire in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces fails to hold as fighting flared in the capital on Tuesday despite the truce being 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commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. \n\nThe mediators admitted the truce had been \"imperfectly observed\" but said the extension \"will permit further humanitarian efforts\". \n\nThe RSF said they will \"exercise their right to defend themselves\" and accused the army of violating the truce. \n\nThe war has killed more than 1,800 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. \n\nThe United Nations says more than a million people have been internally displaced and nearly 350,000 have fled abroad, including over 170,000 to Egypt. \n\n\"Looting and robbery have become commonplace in Khartoum, with some areas being entirely stripped of possessions,\" Ahmed Omer from the Norwegian Refugee Council said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The latest violence comes despite the latest ceasefire pledges of the two warring generals, meant to allow desperately needed aid to reach besieged civilians.<\/p>\n<p>US and Saudi mediators said late Monday the army and the paramilitary RSF had agreed to extend by five days the humanitarian truce they frequently violated over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Since the announcement, residents reported \"clashes with various kinds of weapons in southern Khartoum\", and fighting in Nyala, South Darfur&#039;s state capital.<\/p>\n<p>\"The army is ready to fight until victory,\" army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan declared during a visit to troops in the capital Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>It was in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that mediators brokered the truce between Burhan and his rival, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.<\/p>\n<p>The mediators admitted the truce had been \"imperfectly observed\" but said the extension \"will permit further humanitarian efforts\".<\/p>\n<p>The RSF said they will \"exercise their right to defend themselves\" and accused the army of violating the truce.<\/p>\n<p>The war has killed more than 1,800 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations says more than a million people have been internally displaced and nearly 350,000 have fled abroad, including over 170,000 to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>\"Looting and robbery have become commonplace in Khartoum, with some areas being entirely stripped of possessions,\" Ahmed Omer from the Norwegian Refugee Council said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1685523519,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1685539597,"firstPublishedAt":1685539600,"lastPublishedAt":1685539600,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/77\/10\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3bc7c3a4-9e2e-5abb-97a0-ad86aec42d2c-7637710.jpg","altText":"Sudanese forces","caption":"Sudanese forces","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Hussein Malla\/Copyright 2019 The AP. 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The toll could be much higher, the medical group said. \n\nThe conflict has turned the capital, Khartoum, and other urban areas into battlefields, forcing nearly 1.4 million people to flee their homes to safer areas inside Sudan or cross into neighbouring countries.\u00a0 \n\nEarly on, foreign governments raced to evacuate their diplomats and nationals as thousands of foreign residents scrambled to get out of the African nation. \n\nFor weeks, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been mediating talks between the military and the RSF in the Saudi port city of Jeddah. So far, there have been seven declared cease-fires, all of which have been violated to some extent. \n\nIn Sunday's statement, the US and Saudi Arabia noted that the military continued to carry out airstrikes, while the RSF was still occupying people\u2019s homes and seizing properties.\u00a0 \n\nFuel, money, aid supplies and vehicles belonging to a humanitarian convoy were stolen, with theft occurring both in areas controlled by the military and by the RSF, the statement said. \n\nAlan Boswell of the International Crisis Group think tank said the joint statement was meant to pressure both sides into greater compliance, at a time when the US and Saudi Arabia don't have an alternative for the Jeddah talks. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The five-day extension of the cease-fire between Sudan\u2019s military and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), was announced in a joint statement late on Monday by Saudi Arabia and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\"The extension will provide time for further humanitarian assistance, restoration of essential services, and discussion of a potential longer-term extension,\" the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The development came after both Riyadh and Washington on Sunday called out both warring sides for specific breaches of a week-long truce that is to expire on Monday evening, rather than issue another general appeal to respect agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan descended into chaos after fighting erupted in mid-April between the military, led by General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the RSF, commanded by General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.66796875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//63//93//26//808x539_cmsv2_5d630832-e7b5-511f-8e74-4201d7aeed09-7639326.jpg/" alt=\"Sam Mednick\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/93\/26\/384x257_cmsv2_5d630832-e7b5-511f-8e74-4201d7aeed09-7639326.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/93\/26\/640x428_cmsv2_5d630832-e7b5-511f-8e74-4201d7aeed09-7639326.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/93\/26\/750x501_cmsv2_5d630832-e7b5-511f-8e74-4201d7aeed09-7639326.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/93\/26\/828x553_cmsv2_5d630832-e7b5-511f-8e74-4201d7aeed09-7639326.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/93\/26\/1080x721_cmsv2_5d630832-e7b5-511f-8e74-4201d7aeed09-7639326.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/93\/26\/1200x802_cmsv2_5d630832-e7b5-511f-8e74-4201d7aeed09-7639326.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/93\/26\/1920x1283_cmsv2_5d630832-e7b5-511f-8e74-4201d7aeed09-7639326.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">South Sudanese shelter in a transit center in Renk, South Sudan Wednesday, May 17, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Sam Mednick\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The fighting has killed at least 866 civilians and wounded thousands more, according to the Sudan Doctors\u2019 Syndicate, which tracks civilian casualties. The toll could be much higher, the medical group said.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has turned the capital, Khartoum, and other urban areas into battlefields, forcing nearly 1.4 million people to flee their homes to safer areas inside Sudan or cross into neighbouring countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Early on, foreign governments raced to evacuate their diplomats and nationals as thousands of foreign residents scrambled to get out of the African nation.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been mediating talks between the military and the RSF in the Saudi port city of Jeddah. So far, there have been seven declared cease-fires, all of which have been violated to some extent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//59//62//64//808x539_cmsv2_da31c15d-f36e-5691-9b30-7e6f93aec559-7596264.jpg/" alt=\"Amr Nabil\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/64\/384x256_cmsv2_da31c15d-f36e-5691-9b30-7e6f93aec559-7596264.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/64\/640x427_cmsv2_da31c15d-f36e-5691-9b30-7e6f93aec559-7596264.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/64\/750x500_cmsv2_da31c15d-f36e-5691-9b30-7e6f93aec559-7596264.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/64\/828x552_cmsv2_da31c15d-f36e-5691-9b30-7e6f93aec559-7596264.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/64\/1080x720_cmsv2_da31c15d-f36e-5691-9b30-7e6f93aec559-7596264.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/64\/1200x800_cmsv2_da31c15d-f36e-5691-9b30-7e6f93aec559-7596264.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/64\/1920x1281_cmsv2_da31c15d-f36e-5691-9b30-7e6f93aec559-7596264.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Sudanese evacuee carries her son as they disembark from the USNS Brunswick at Jeddah port, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, May 4, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Amr Nabil\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In Sunday&#039;s statement, the US and Saudi Arabia noted that the military continued to carry out airstrikes, while the RSF was still occupying people\u2019s homes and seizing properties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fuel, money, aid supplies and vehicles belonging to a humanitarian convoy were stolen, with theft occurring both in areas controlled by the military and by the RSF, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Boswell of the International Crisis Group think tank said the joint statement was meant to pressure both sides into greater compliance, at a time when the US and Saudi Arabia don&#039;t have an alternative for the Jeddah talks.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1685398327,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1685438879,"firstPublishedAt":1685438882,"lastPublishedAt":1685438882,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/93\/26\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f24fbcd2-705e-5027-8254-c3ace6b836fa-7639326.jpg","altText":"Children sit and play on the remains of a tank, at the river port in Renk, South Sudan Wednesday, May 17, 2023.","caption":"Children sit and play on the remains of a tank, at the river port in Renk, South Sudan Wednesday, May 17, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Sam Mednick\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":684},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/93\/26\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5d630832-e7b5-511f-8e74-4201d7aeed09-7639326.jpg","altText":"South Sudanese shelter in a transit center in Renk, South Sudan Wednesday, May 17, 2023.","caption":"South Sudanese shelter in a transit center in Renk, South Sudan Wednesday, May 17, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Sam Mednick\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":684},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/93\/42\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_61e2f42e-ed8b-51dc-a40a-bdff353178ac-7639342.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Marwan Ali\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":6720,"height":4480}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":28410,"slug":"power-struggle","urlSafeValue":"power-struggle","title":"power struggle","titleRaw":"power struggle"},{"id":8029,"slug":"sudan","urlSafeValue":"sudan","title":"Sudan","titleRaw":"Sudan"},{"id":12539,"slug":"dispute","urlSafeValue":"dispute","title":"dispute","titleRaw":"dispute"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":2}],"related":[{"id":2321002},{"id":2602066},{"id":2602532}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"fKiP9VFbwM4","dailymotionId":"x8ld1gf"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/NW\/SU\/23\/05\/30\/en\/230530_NWSU_51845966_51845995_50000_103216_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":50000,"filesizeBytes":6776611,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/NW\/SU\/23\/05\/30\/en\/230530_NWSU_51845966_51845995_50000_103216_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":50000,"filesizeBytes":10049315,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"africa","title":"Africa"},"country":{"id":263,"urlSafeValue":"sudan","title":"Sudan","url":"\/news\/africa\/sudan"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gb_safe','gs_science','gs_news','gs_news_and_weather','gs_science_weather','gs_vidgames','gs_travel_locations'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2023\/05\/30\/army-and-rsf-agree-five-day-extension-of-truce-in-sudan","lastModified":1685438882},{"id":2282956,"cid":7634382,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230527_NWSU_51819578","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"SUDAN UN AID","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Sudan: 600,000 people have received aid from WFP, UN spokesperson says","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Sudan: 600,000 people have received aid from WFP, UN spokesperson says","titleListing2":"Sudan: 600,000 people have received aid from WFP, UN spokesperson says","leadin":"The conflict has pushed the East African country to the brink of collapse, with urban areas in Khartoum and the adjacent city of Omdurman disintegrating into battlegrounds.","summary":"The conflict has pushed the East African country to the brink of collapse, with urban areas in Khartoum and the adjacent city of Omdurman disintegrating into battlegrounds.","keySentence":"","url":"sudan-600000-people-have-received-aid-from-wfp-un-spokesperson-says","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/27\/sudan-600000-people-have-received-aid-from-wfp-un-spokesperson-says","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The World Food Programme (WFP) has now reached more than 600,000 vulnerable people with food and nutrition aid since restarting distributions in Sudan, a United Nations spokesperson said in New York on Friday. \n\nThe spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said, \u201cIn three states in the Darfur region - North, South and East - the WFP has now reached some 180,000 people.\u201d \n\nAccording to St\u00e9phane Dujarric, the agency is planning to start distributions in Central Darfur in the coming days. \n\n\u201cAs of today, the WFP has resumed distributions in Blue Nile State,\" he said. \n\nHowever, the World Health Organization has confirmed eight new reports of attacks on healthcare facilities in the last two weeks, which brings the total number of verified attacks since the latest round of fighting broke out in Sudan to 38. \n\nMeanwhile, fighting continues in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and the Western Darfur region despite reports from Saudi Arabia and the US that the warring sides are adhering better to a new, weeklong cease-fire following days of sporadic fighting. \n\nThe latest pause is the seventh attempt at a truce after the others were violated. \n\nThe conflict in Sudan erupted in mid-April after months of escalating tensions between the military, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary commanded by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. \n\nAmid the reported calm on Thursday, humanitarian missions were able on to deliver \"urgently needed medical supplies to several locations in Sudan,\u201d the joint statement said. \n\nEfforts were also underway to restore telecommunications services in Khartoum and other parts of the country. \n\nUnited States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned both parties of possible sanctions if the latest cease-fire was not adhered to. \n\nThe UN says that more than a million Sudanese have been internally displaced, while some 300,000 have fled to neighbouring countries. \n\nThe conflict has killed more than 860 civilians, including at least 190 children, according to the most recent numbers from the Sudanese Doctors\u2019 Syndicate. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The World Food Programme (WFP) has now reached more than 600,000 vulnerable people with food and nutrition aid since restarting distributions in Sudan, a United Nations spokesperson said in New York on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said, \u201cIn three states in the Darfur region - North, South and East - the WFP has now reached some 180,000 people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to St\u00e9phane Dujarric, the agency is planning to start distributions in Central Darfur in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of today, the WFP has resumed distributions in Blue Nile State,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the World Health Organization has confirmed eight new reports of attacks on healthcare facilities in the last two weeks, which brings the total number of verified attacks since the latest round of fighting broke out in Sudan to 38.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7620272,7611010\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//22//pope-prays-for-peace-in-sudan-as-fighting-continues-despite-imminent-ceasefire/">Pope prays for peace in Sudan as fighting continues despite imminent ceasefire<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//17//what-is-at-stake-for-europe-as-war-in-sudan-rages-on-and-a-regional-crisis-looms/">What is at stake for Europe as war in Sudan rages on and a regional crisis looms?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, fighting continues in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and the Western Darfur region despite reports from Saudi Arabia and the US that the warring sides are adhering better to a new, weeklong cease-fire following days of sporadic fighting.<\/p>\n<p>The latest pause is the seventh attempt at a truce after the others were violated.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict in Sudan erupted in mid-April after months of escalating tensions between the military, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary commanded by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the reported calm on Thursday, humanitarian missions were able on to deliver \"urgently needed medical supplies to several locations in Sudan,\u201d the joint statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts were also underway to restore telecommunications services in Khartoum and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//59//62//62//808x539_cmsv2_68498fb0-2473-5575-9bbf-ce31ba8684be-7596262.jpg/" alt=\"Amr Nabil\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/62\/384x256_cmsv2_68498fb0-2473-5575-9bbf-ce31ba8684be-7596262.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/62\/640x427_cmsv2_68498fb0-2473-5575-9bbf-ce31ba8684be-7596262.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/62\/750x500_cmsv2_68498fb0-2473-5575-9bbf-ce31ba8684be-7596262.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/62\/828x552_cmsv2_68498fb0-2473-5575-9bbf-ce31ba8684be-7596262.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/62\/1080x720_cmsv2_68498fb0-2473-5575-9bbf-ce31ba8684be-7596262.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/62\/1200x800_cmsv2_68498fb0-2473-5575-9bbf-ce31ba8684be-7596262.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/62\/1920x1281_cmsv2_68498fb0-2473-5575-9bbf-ce31ba8684be-7596262.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sudanese evacuees wait under a pane at Port Sudan airport, Thursday, May 11, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Amr Nabil\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned both parties of possible sanctions if the latest cease-fire was not adhered to.<\/p>\n<p>The UN says that more than a million Sudanese have been internally displaced, while some 300,000 have fled to neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has killed more than 860 civilians, including at least 190 children, according to the most recent numbers from the Sudanese Doctors\u2019 Syndicate.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1685187801,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1685195736,"firstPublishedAt":1685195742,"lastPublishedAt":1685195742,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/63\/43\/82\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_550cb6e4-3291-5f5c-8a55-660ef9948fb8-7634382.jpg","altText":"Sudanese Ayoub Abu Fatema, head of an NGO organisation, receives aid from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre at Port Sudan airport, Thursday, May 11, 2023. ","caption":"Sudanese Ayoub Abu Fatema, head of an NGO organisation, receives aid from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre at Port Sudan airport, Thursday, May 11, 2023. 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Islamic World: KazanForum', in Russia's southwestern city of Kazan,\u00a0Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Moscow is ready to provide warring parties with a platform for negotiations. \n\n\"They must sort out their own problems, and we are ready to assist in this since we have long-standing ties,\"\u00a0Bogdanov declared. \n\n\"Agreements on a ceasefire are being violated. We empathise, and we are in touch with our ambassador in Khartoum,\" he added. \n\nAfter more than a month of fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, the UN says the country needs \u20ac2.7 billion euros in emergency aid. \n\nAround 1,000 people have been killed since the conflict began in April this year, and one million others have been displaced. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Russia has announced it is prepared to act as a possible mediator in the war in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sidelines of the &#039;Russia - Islamic World: KazanForum&#039;, in Russia&#039;s southwestern city of Kazan,\u00a0Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Moscow is ready to provide warring parties with a platform for negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\"They must sort out their own problems, and we are ready to assist in this since we have long-standing ties,\"\u00a0Bogdanov declared.<\/p>\n<p>\"Agreements on a ceasefire are being violated. We empathise, and we are in touch with our ambassador in Khartoum,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>After more than a month of fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, the UN says the country needs \u20ac2.7 billion euros in emergency aid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7610556,7604114\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//17//un-says-it-needs-close-to-3-billion-euros-for-humanitarian-aid-for-sudan/">UN says it needs close to 3 billion euros for humanitarian aid for Sudan<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//15//sudanese-continue-to-flee-the-country-as-fighting-in-khartoum-enters-fifth-week/">Sudanese continue to flee the country as fighting in Khartoum enters fifth week<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Around 1,000 people have been killed since the conflict began in April this year, and one million others have been displaced.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1684455995,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1684481437,"firstPublishedAt":1684481440,"lastPublishedAt":1684481440,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/47\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5236f9f6-b61a-5ce8-b65d-9a9dac7a45da-7614762.jpg","altText":"Sudanese, who had been stranded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, arrive at Port Sudan airport, Thursday, May 11, 2023.","caption":"Sudanese, who had been stranded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, arrive at Port Sudan airport, Thursday, May 11, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Amr Nabil\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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The same is just as true about Khartoum, Joseph Hammond writes.","leadin":"Humanitarian concerns should trump geopolitics in our view of the current Sudanese civil war, Joseph Hammond writes.","summary":"Humanitarian concerns should trump geopolitics in our view of the current Sudanese civil war, Joseph Hammond writes.","keySentence":"","url":"what-is-at-stake-for-europe-as-war-in-sudan-rages-on-and-a-regional-crisis-looms","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/17\/what-is-at-stake-for-europe-as-war-in-sudan-rages-on-and-a-regional-crisis-looms","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Since 15 April, Sudan has been locked in a bloody civil war that threatens to tip the Horn of Africa over the brink and straight into a full-blown humanitarian disaster.\u00a0 \n\nNo less an observer than the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, has said the conflict has the potential to be \u201cworse than Ukraine\u201d. \n\nHer claim was quickly dismissed as a public relations move, but the recent military history of the Horn of Africa suggests how deadly conflicts in the region can be to civilians.\u00a0 \n\nTo add to the tragedy, the war threatens to additionally compromise the food security of one of the world\u2019s most distinguished regions. \n\nWars in the Horn of Africa disproportionately affect civilians \n\nThe 2013-2020 South Sudanese Civil War offers a clear example of how the conflict in the Horn of Africa has a disproportionate impact on civilians. \n\nAccording to one study published in 2018 by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, some 383,000 people had died in the conflict since 2013.\u00a0 \n\nOf these, some 193,000 were civilian deaths due to displacement, disruption of health care, and starvation.\u00a0Tragically, starvation continues to be a weapon of war for some actors in the Horn of Africa. \n\nIn the Sudan war that is raging on right now, roughly 500 civilians have been killed in the first month \u2014 a figure just slightly smaller than the monthly average in Ukraine.\u00a0 \n\nThat is to say, a large civil war in the Horn of Africa has seen already civilian deaths equivalent to a massive-scale invasion of Ukraine by one of the world\u2019s greatest arms producers. \n\nMillions more are at severe risk \n\nWhile civilian deaths peaked and levelled off early in Ukraine, we are likely to see expanded suffering among civilians in Sudan due to a number of additional factors compounding their misery.\u00a0 \n\nBefore this conflict, a third of Sudan\u2019s population faced food insecurity and other humanitarian challenges.\u00a0 \n\nAdditionally, this year, the country recorded its reportedly first-ever outbreak of dengue fever in the capital of Khartoum. \n\nYet the biggest issue this conflict has already exacerbated relates to food security. A UN document released in March claimed as many as 129,000 face imminent starvation and death in the Horn of Africa.\u00a0 \n\nWhile initially it was forecast that South Sudan and Somalia will be the hardest hit by this emerging crisis, Sudan\u2019s new conflict puts millions more at severe risk. \n\nThis year is the sixth in a row where rains have failed to fall across the Horn of Africa, causing the worst drought in forty years.\u00a0 \n\nIn some areas, locals said conditions are not as bad as in 2011 \u2013 a year in which famine, claimed by some estimates, directly or indirectly claimed a quarter of a million lives.\u00a0 \n\nHowever, the conflict in Sudan and the disruptions to global food supplies due to the war in Ukraine may be complicating factors. \n\nA humanitarian crisis should be avoided at all costs \n\nThus, it is imperative for collective action to both build peace and stem the humanitarian crisis.\u00a0 \n\nWhile a number of countries pooled resources to help their nationals flee Sudan, the world must now use those same capabilities to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.\u00a0 \n\nSome aid groups operating in neighbouring countries have announced in the past week that they may see food shortages soon. \n\nThe European Union has undertaken some important steps to ameliorate the humanitarian crisis, notably launching an \"air bridge\" to provide much-needed humanitarian aid.\u00a0 \n\nTo that end, a number of countries have launched similar efforts that have engaged civil society.\u00a0King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), based in Saudi Arabia, has launched a similar air bridge to provide humanitarian supplies to Sudan.\u00a0 \n\nNATO should demonstrate its prior engagement was not a one-off \n\nYet, NATO is still not getting involved, despite the fact that\u00a0the alliance's first-ever Africa-related operation was to provide logistical support to an African Union peacekeeping effort in Sudan in 2005 together with the EU.\u00a0 \n\nAfter the war in Afghanistan, it was NATO's second-ever out-of-area operation. Even today, NATO brags about its mission when discussing its role in Africa. \n\nHowever, NATO should show that its former engagement in Sudan was not a one-off affair and support ongoing logistical efforts to support humanitarian efforts to the conflict.\u00a0 \n\nPerhaps the argument this time around is even stronger than the one that sparked NATO's involvement in 2005, given that Russia's presence and role in the country have only expanded in recent years. \n\nSudan is much closer to Europe than most realise \n\nAs the Sudanese people bravely face this storm, they do so with less coin in their pockets. The country\u2019s exports have been largely halted since.\u00a0 \n\nTragically, Sudan\u2019s largest export since the start of the conflict has been refugees.\u00a0 \n\nEthiopia alone is receiving roughly 1,000 refugees per day from Sudan as the fighting rages on, while as many as 800,000 may flee as a result of the conflict\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a small fraction of the refugees that the war in Ukraine has produced.\u00a0 \n\nYet, with the region facing a severe drought, those fleeing the conflict could see thousands of \u201cclimate refugees\u201d following in their footsteps.\u00a0 \n\nThis is why humanitarian concerns should trump geopolitics in our view of the current Sudanese civil war.\u00a0 \n\nEurope should act now to strengthen the humanitarian response less the conflict in Sudan destabilises the country's neighbours and, ultimately, the Southern Mediterranean. \n\nWar has taught European leaders that Kyiv is far closer to Brussels than many realised. The same is just as true about Khartoum. \n\nJoseph Hammond is a journalist who has reported extensively from Africa, Eurasia and the Middle East, as well as a former Fulbright Public Policy Fellow. \n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Since 15 April, Sudan has been locked in a bloody civil war that threatens to tip the Horn of Africa over the brink and straight into a full-blown humanitarian disaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No less an observer than the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, has said the conflict has the potential to be \u201cworse than Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Her claim was quickly dismissed as a public relations move, but the recent military history of the Horn of Africa suggests how deadly conflicts in the region can be to civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To add to the tragedy, the war threatens to additionally compromise the food security of one of the world\u2019s most distinguished regions.<\/p>\n<h2>Wars in the Horn of Africa disproportionately affect civilians<\/h2><p>The 2013-2020 South Sudanese Civil War offers a clear example of how the conflict in the Horn of Africa has a disproportionate impact on civilians.<\/p>\n<p>According to one study published in 2018 by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, some 383,000 people had died in the conflict since 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">In the Sudan war that is raging on right now, roughly 500 civilians have been killed in the first month \u2014 a figure just slightly smaller than the monthly average in Ukraine.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666015625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//61//10//10//808x539_cmsv2_9a25d2cc-2406-5c69-9a6b-a113c73682c6-7611010.jpg/" alt=\"Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin\/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/384x256_cmsv2_9a25d2cc-2406-5c69-9a6b-a113c73682c6-7611010.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/640x426_cmsv2_9a25d2cc-2406-5c69-9a6b-a113c73682c6-7611010.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/750x500_cmsv2_9a25d2cc-2406-5c69-9a6b-a113c73682c6-7611010.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/828x551_cmsv2_9a25d2cc-2406-5c69-9a6b-a113c73682c6-7611010.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1080x719_cmsv2_9a25d2cc-2406-5c69-9a6b-a113c73682c6-7611010.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1200x799_cmsv2_9a25d2cc-2406-5c69-9a6b-a113c73682c6-7611010.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1920x1279_cmsv2_9a25d2cc-2406-5c69-9a6b-a113c73682c6-7611010.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A South-Sudanese government soldier is seen through a broken window at the airport in Bor, Jonglei State, South Sudan, January 2014<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Of these, some 193,000 were civilian deaths due to displacement, disruption of health care, and starvation.\u00a0Tragically, starvation continues to be a weapon of war for some actors in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In the Sudan war that is raging on right now, roughly 500 civilians have been killed in the first month \u2014 a figure just slightly smaller than the monthly average in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is to say, a large civil war in the Horn of Africa has seen already civilian deaths equivalent to a massive-scale invasion of Ukraine by one of the world\u2019s greatest arms producers.<\/p>\n<h2>Millions more are at severe risk<\/h2><p>While civilian deaths peaked and levelled off early in Ukraine, we are likely to see expanded suffering among civilians in Sudan due to a number of additional factors compounding their misery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before this conflict, a third of Sudan\u2019s population faced food insecurity and other humanitarian challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this year, the country recorded its reportedly first-ever outbreak of dengue fever in the capital of Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the biggest issue this conflict has already exacerbated relates to food security. A UN document released in March claimed as many as 129,000 face imminent starvation and death in the Horn of Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">While initially it was forecast that South Sudan and Somalia will be the hardest hit by this emerging crisis, Sudan\u2019s new conflict puts millions more at severe risk.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//61//10//10//808x539_cmsv2_68163ac3-7381-5839-94e1-46ad1bf9324e-7611010.jpg/" alt=\"Peter Louis\/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/384x256_cmsv2_68163ac3-7381-5839-94e1-46ad1bf9324e-7611010.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/640x427_cmsv2_68163ac3-7381-5839-94e1-46ad1bf9324e-7611010.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/750x500_cmsv2_68163ac3-7381-5839-94e1-46ad1bf9324e-7611010.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/828x552_cmsv2_68163ac3-7381-5839-94e1-46ad1bf9324e-7611010.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1080x720_cmsv2_68163ac3-7381-5839-94e1-46ad1bf9324e-7611010.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1200x800_cmsv2_68163ac3-7381-5839-94e1-46ad1bf9324e-7611010.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1920x1281_cmsv2_68163ac3-7381-5839-94e1-46ad1bf9324e-7611010.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People who crossed from Sudan are seen at a refugee camp in Renk County, South Sudan, 3 May 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Peter Louis\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While initially it was forecast that South Sudan and Somalia will be the hardest hit by this emerging crisis, Sudan\u2019s new conflict puts millions more at severe risk.<\/p>\n<p>This year is the sixth in a row where rains have failed to fall across the Horn of Africa, causing the worst drought in forty years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In some areas, locals said conditions are not as bad as in 2011 \u2013 a year in which famine, claimed by some estimates, directly or indirectly claimed a quarter of a million lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the conflict in Sudan and the disruptions to global food supplies due to the war in Ukraine may be complicating factors.<\/p>\n<h2>A humanitarian crisis should be avoided at all costs<\/h2><p>Thus, it is imperative for collective action to both build peace and stem the humanitarian crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While a number of countries pooled resources to help their nationals flee Sudan, the world must now use those same capabilities to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some aid groups operating in neighbouring countries have announced in the past week that they may see food shortages soon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">The European Union has undertaken some important steps to ameliorate the humanitarian crisis, notably launching an 'air bridge' to provide much-needed humanitarian aid.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//61//10//10//808x539_cmsv2_1e78a5fb-f2f9-5e54-adeb-1b62d120d14f-7611010.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\/Petros Karadjias\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/384x256_cmsv2_1e78a5fb-f2f9-5e54-adeb-1b62d120d14f-7611010.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/640x427_cmsv2_1e78a5fb-f2f9-5e54-adeb-1b62d120d14f-7611010.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/750x500_cmsv2_1e78a5fb-f2f9-5e54-adeb-1b62d120d14f-7611010.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/828x552_cmsv2_1e78a5fb-f2f9-5e54-adeb-1b62d120d14f-7611010.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1080x720_cmsv2_1e78a5fb-f2f9-5e54-adeb-1b62d120d14f-7611010.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1200x800_cmsv2_1e78a5fb-f2f9-5e54-adeb-1b62d120d14f-7611010.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1920x1281_cmsv2_1e78a5fb-f2f9-5e54-adeb-1b62d120d14f-7611010.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People exit a British military transport aircraft after arriving with approximately 79 British nationals at Larnaca main airport, Cyprus, April 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Petros Karadjias<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The European Union has undertaken some important steps to ameliorate the humanitarian crisis, notably launching an \"air bridge\" to provide much-needed humanitarian aid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To that end, a number of countries have launched similar efforts that have engaged civil society.\u00a0King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), based in Saudi Arabia, has launched a similar air bridge to provide humanitarian supplies to Sudan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>NATO should demonstrate its prior engagement was not a one-off<\/h2><p>Yet, NATO is still not getting involved, despite the fact that\u00a0the alliance&#039;s first-ever Africa-related operation was to provide logistical support to an African Union peacekeeping effort in Sudan in 2005 together with the EU.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the war in Afghanistan, it was NATO&#039;s second-ever out-of-area operation. Even today, NATO brags about its mission when discussing its role in Africa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Perhaps the argument this time around is even stronger than the one that sparked NATO's involvement in 2005, given that Russia's presence and role in the country have only expanded in recent years.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//61//10//10//808x539_cmsv2_3e60351a-6073-5eca-acc6-246f4415195f-7611010.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/384x256_cmsv2_3e60351a-6073-5eca-acc6-246f4415195f-7611010.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/640x427_cmsv2_3e60351a-6073-5eca-acc6-246f4415195f-7611010.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/750x500_cmsv2_3e60351a-6073-5eca-acc6-246f4415195f-7611010.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/828x552_cmsv2_3e60351a-6073-5eca-acc6-246f4415195f-7611010.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1080x720_cmsv2_3e60351a-6073-5eca-acc6-246f4415195f-7611010.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1200x800_cmsv2_3e60351a-6073-5eca-acc6-246f4415195f-7611010.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/1920x1281_cmsv2_3e60351a-6073-5eca-acc6-246f4415195f-7611010.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Russian warship is docked in the Port Sudan where a Russian naval facility is to be established, February 2021<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>However, NATO should show that its former engagement in Sudan was not a one-off affair and support ongoing logistical efforts to support humanitarian efforts to the conflict.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the argument this time around is even stronger than the one that sparked NATO&#039;s involvement in 2005, given that Russia&#039;s presence and role in the country have only expanded in recent years.<\/p>\n<h2>Sudan is much closer to Europe than most realise<\/h2><p>As the Sudanese people bravely face this storm, they do so with less coin in their pockets. The country\u2019s exports have been largely halted since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, Sudan\u2019s largest export since the start of the conflict has been refugees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia alone is receiving roughly 1,000 refugees per day from Sudan as the fighting rages on, while as many as 800,000 may flee as a result of the conflict\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a small fraction of the refugees that the war in Ukraine has produced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">War has taught European leaders that Kyiv is far closer to Brussels than many realised. The same is just as true about Khartoum.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//59//05//04//808x539_cmsv2_835258cf-cc21-5b36-82b3-653688e4b652-7590504.jpg/" alt=\"Peter Louis\/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/05\/04\/384x256_cmsv2_835258cf-cc21-5b36-82b3-653688e4b652-7590504.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/05\/04\/640x427_cmsv2_835258cf-cc21-5b36-82b3-653688e4b652-7590504.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/05\/04\/750x500_cmsv2_835258cf-cc21-5b36-82b3-653688e4b652-7590504.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/05\/04\/828x552_cmsv2_835258cf-cc21-5b36-82b3-653688e4b652-7590504.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/05\/04\/1080x720_cmsv2_835258cf-cc21-5b36-82b3-653688e4b652-7590504.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/05\/04\/1200x800_cmsv2_835258cf-cc21-5b36-82b3-653688e4b652-7590504.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/05\/04\/1920x1281_cmsv2_835258cf-cc21-5b36-82b3-653688e4b652-7590504.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People who crossed from Sudan are seen at a refugee camp in Renk County, South Sudan, 3 May 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Peter Louis\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yet, with the region facing a severe drought, those fleeing the conflict could see thousands of \u201cclimate refugees\u201d following in their footsteps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is why humanitarian concerns should trump geopolitics in our view of the current Sudanese civil war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Europe should act now to strengthen the humanitarian response less the conflict in Sudan destabilises the country&#039;s neighbours and, ultimately, the Southern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>War has taught European leaders that Kyiv is far closer to Brussels than many realised. The same is just as true about Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Hammond is a journalist who has reported extensively from Africa, Eurasia and the Middle East, as well as a former Fulbright Public Policy Fellow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/news/africa/\"mailto:view@euronews.com\">view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1684324386,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1684342227,"firstPublishedAt":1684342232,"lastPublishedAt":1684342267,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2491d0e3-6704-5744-855b-8aeaf283eb6e-7611010.jpg","altText":"Smoke seen in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, on 22 April 2023","caption":"Smoke seen in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, on 22 April 2023","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Euronews","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/61\/10\/10\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_68163ac3-7381-5839-94e1-46ad1bf9324e-7611010.jpg","altText":"People who crossed from Sudan are 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SUDAN ONE MONTH","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Sudan: no sign of peace as fighting escalates","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Sudan: no sign of peace as fighting escalates","titleListing2":"Sudan: no sign of peace as fighting escalates","leadin":"In Sudan, a bitter battle between opposing generals for power has been raging for a month. Caught in the crossfire is the Sudanese population which has resisted military rule for years and is demanding a transition to democracy.","summary":"In Sudan, a bitter battle between opposing generals for power has been raging for a month. Caught in the crossfire is the Sudanese population which has resisted military rule for years and is demanding a transition to democracy.","keySentence":"","url":"sudan-no-sign-of-peace-as-fighting-escalates","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/15\/sudan-no-sign-of-peace-as-fighting-escalates","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"One month after the escalation of violence in Sudan, hundreds of people have died and thousands more injured. Experts believe the number of unreported casualties is much higher. \n\nAnd looming on the horizon is a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. According to estimates by the United Nations World Food Programme , 19 million people - or 41% of the population - could soon\u00a0 face hunger \u00a0if the conflict cannot be brought to an end. Mathilde Vu of the non-profit organisation Norwegian Refugee Aid, told Euronews the situation is very alarming.\u00a0 \n\n\"It's hell. Everyday people [are] struggling to find water because there's no more running water, struggling to find food, struggling to move around,\" she explains. \"You know, you can be caught in the crossfire just because you want to go and buy some food and if you arrive at a shop then the prices are skyrocketing. And so everybody's running out of cash as well as the banks which have been closed for the past 46 days.\" \n\nInformation from local colleagues who the organisation tries to stay in touch with is scarce. Mobile phone networks are currently not working, and power outages are becoming more frequent after attacks on electricity plants. And looting has increased, Vu says. People are being forced to leave their homes because they have been occupied by armed groups. \n\nViolence broke out on 15 April in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, between rival military factions whose leaders had jointly swept to power in 2021. \n\nThe Sudanese army, under General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is at war with the influential head of General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces militia (RSF). They are a paramilitary group that emerged in 2013 from the notorious Janjaweed militia accused of ethnic cleansing of non-Arab minorities in the Darfur region. \n\nThe UN Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimates that at least 700,000 people have been displaced in Sudan since mid-April with the number of refugees registered in neighbouring countries standing at around 150,000. \n\n\"Every single bit of life that can exist right now is either destroyed or in jeopardy. So that's why you have a lot of people who have fled and are running towards either the border in the north, to Egypt or in the south into South Sudan or sometimes in nearby cities in the east\", Vu says. \n\nSadeia Alrasheed Ali Hamid, a Sudanese activist currently living in Saudi Arabia, descibed to Euronews the conditions in her home country:\u00a0\"We have bodies left on the street for the dogs to eat. What is this? And not just that. We have children who cannot go to hospital. They are afraid. [...] They are staying under their beds because everyone is afraid to go out just to buy food or buy anything. (...) I am hearing that they are targeting the local markets, the main local markets in Khartoum. There are some gangs there who destroy everything in the market, steal everything. And these markets have the products that people need, food supplies and everything.\" \n\nOn Friday 12 May, the warring parties signed a declaration of commitment in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to allow humanitarian aid into the country and to protect the civilian population. Something that has not been possible for security reasons since the escalation of violence.\u00a0 \n\nVu points out for aid organisations, there is another difficulty:\u00a0\u201cThe fact that cash is just non-existent right now in this country [makes it] really difficult. We have to make terrible choices like do we pay for fuel, do we pay for food, do we pay salaries? And that's really limiting the ability of an organisation to do a response at scale.\" \n\nThe prospect of an early end to the civil war seems distant - even a cease-fire has not yet been achieved. \n\nAnd there are growing concerns the conflict could spread to neighbouring countries. This is one reason why aid organisations are scrambling to focus attention on Sudan as quickly as possible.\u00a0 \n\nNeighbouring countries such as Libya, Chad and Ethiopia are struggling with their own economic challenges, and the political situation in these countries is often unstable. Add to that the clear effects of climate change and, as Vu puts it, the region is already \"extremely vulnerable to shocks.\" \n\nOne of the things that needs to happen, Vu says, is for the international community to send a very, very strong message to the warring parties, making it clear that humanitarian aid and civilian lives and civilian infrastructure need to be protected regardless of ceasefires, regardless of peace agreements.\" \n\nSudanese activist Sadeia Alrasheed Ali Hamid agrees:\u00a0\"At least right now the whole world should talk about what's happening in Sudan. We cannot even count how many deaths there have been in our country. I feel like we are being left out. Please. (...) We are part of a whole world. The whole universe. We are part of this. There is a voice here in Africa, in Sudan, calling for help.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>One month after the escalation of violence in Sudan, hundreds of people have died and thousands more injured. Experts believe the number of unreported casualties is much higher.<\/p>\n<p>And looming on the horizon is a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. According to estimates by the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.wfp.org//stories//wfp-resumes-food-assistance-crisis-torn-sudan/">United Nations World Food Programme<\/strong><\/a>, 19 million people - or 41% of the population - could soon\u00a0<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.wfp.org//news//hunger-set-hit-record-high-sudan-fighting-continues?&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=organicpost&amp;utm_campaign=newsrelease&amp;utm_content=staticimage%23\%22>face hunger<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0if the conflict cannot be brought to an end. Mathilde Vu of the non-profit organisation Norwegian Refugee Aid, told Euronews the situation is very alarming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"It&#039;s hell. Everyday people [are] struggling to find water because there&#039;s no more running water, struggling to find food, struggling to move around,\" she explains. \"You know, you can be caught in the crossfire just because you want to go and buy some food and if you arrive at a shop then the prices are skyrocketing. And so everybody&#039;s running out of cash as well as the banks which have been closed for the past 46 days.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">We have bodies left on the street for the dogs to eat. What is this?<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Information from local colleagues who the organisation tries to stay in touch with is scarce. Mobile phone networks are currently not working, and power outages are becoming more frequent after attacks on electricity plants. And looting has increased, Vu says. People are being forced to leave their homes because they have been occupied by armed groups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7590498\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//09//hundreds-of-thusdands-forced-to-flee-their-homes-in-sudan-amid-fighting/">Hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes in Sudan amid fighting<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Violence broke out on 15 April in Sudan&#039;s capital, Khartoum, between rival military factions whose leaders had jointly swept to power in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Sudanese army, under General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is at war with the influential head of General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo&#039;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces militia (RSF). They are a paramilitary group that emerged in 2013 from the notorious Janjaweed militia accused of ethnic cleansing of non-Arab minorities in the Darfur region.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimates that at least <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.internal-displacement.org//global-report//grid2022///">700,000 people have been displaced<\/strong><\/a> in Sudan since mid-April with the number of refugees registered in neighbouring countries standing at around 150,000.<\/p>\n<p>\"Every single bit of life that can exist right now is either destroyed or in jeopardy. So that&#039;s why you have a lot of people who have fled and are running towards either the border in the north, to Egypt or in the south into South Sudan or sometimes in nearby cities in the east\", Vu says.<\/p>\n<p>Sadeia Alrasheed Ali Hamid, a Sudanese activist currently living in Saudi Arabia, descibed to Euronews the conditions in her home country:\u00a0\"We have bodies left on the street for the dogs to eat. What is this? And not just that. We have children who cannot go to hospital. They are afraid. [...] They are staying under their beds because everyone is afraid to go out just to buy food or buy anything. (...) I am hearing that they are targeting the local markets, the main local markets in Khartoum. There are some gangs there who destroy everything in the market, steal everything. And these markets have the products that people need, food supplies and everything.\"<\/p>\n<p>On Friday 12 May, the warring parties signed a declaration of commitment in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to allow humanitarian aid into the country and to protect the civilian population. Something that has not been possible for security reasons since the escalation of violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vu points out for aid organisations, there is another difficulty:\u00a0\u201cThe fact that cash is just non-existent right now in this country [makes it] really difficult. We have to make terrible choices like do we pay for fuel, do we pay for food, do we pay salaries? And that&#039;s really limiting the ability of an organisation to do a response at scale.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1656663688856891405\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The prospect of an early end to the civil war seems distant - even a cease-fire has not yet been achieved.<\/p>\n<p>And there are growing concerns the conflict could spread to neighbouring countries. This is one reason why aid organisations are scrambling to focus attention on Sudan as quickly as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neighbouring countries such as Libya, Chad and Ethiopia are struggling with their own economic challenges, and the political situation in these countries is often unstable. Add to that the clear effects of climate change and, as Vu puts it, the region is already \"extremely vulnerable to shocks.\"<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that needs to happen, Vu says, is for the international community to send a very, very strong message to the warring parties, making it clear that humanitarian aid and civilian lives and civilian infrastructure need to be protected regardless of ceasefires, regardless of peace agreements.\"<\/p>\n<p>Sudanese activist Sadeia Alrasheed Ali Hamid agrees:\u00a0\"At least right now the whole world should talk about what&#039;s happening in Sudan. We cannot even count how many deaths there have been in our country. I feel like we are being left out. Please. (...) We are part of a whole world. The whole universe. We are part of this. There is a voice here in Africa, in Sudan, calling for help.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683792981,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1684143995,"firstPublishedAt":1684143998,"lastPublishedAt":1684160673,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/62\/52\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_cec56e39-e35c-5131-88ae-bee55f6183ab-7596252.jpg","altText":"FILE - Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, April 19, 2023.","caption":"FILE - Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, April 19, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Marwan Ali\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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of the capital, Khartoum, on Sunday with little sign that warring military factions were ready to back down. \n\nA witness in the west of the city reported army air strikes on paramilitary forces, as brutal urban warfare continued in Sudan's densely-populated capital. \n\nThis comes even as representatives of the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continue holding talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at preventing a \"humanitarian catastrophe\" in their country. \n\nFighting erupted on 15 April between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy turned rival Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who commands the RSF. \n\nThe United Nations said on Sunday that more than 750 people have been killed and over 5,000 others injured in the unrest, although the real death toll is expected to be much higher. \n\nMeanwhile, Sudanese continue to flee the ongoing fighting. An estimated 200,000 people have escaped into neighbouring countries while more than 700,000 have been internally displaced. \n\nAt the Argeen border with neighbouring Egypt, new families arrive every day, making the 1,000 kilometre journey from Khartoum through the desert in search of safety. \n\nBut not everyone has the financial means to be able to leave. \n\n\"The bus ride costs $250 a person. Then there\u2019s the official tariffs on both sides of the crossing and rental for a place to live in Egypt. Not everyone can afford this, it's a large expense,\" said evacuee Wahag Gafar Ibrahim. \n\nShe said the trip was \u201creally tiring and scary\", adding that the war in her country had \"affected everyone\". \n\nThe United Nations says over half a million people have fled Khartoum alone, with hospitals in the capital shelled and rampant looting reported as residents suffer under chronic shortages of food, electricity, and medicine. \n\nHopes for a ceasefire remain dim after multiple truces were violated in the past weeks. \n\nOn Saturday, Sudan launched a call to the international community, including the United Nations, the African Union, and other regional organisations, \"to provide humanitarian assistance\". \n\nCivilians and aid groups have repeatedly pleaded for humanitarian corridors to secure vital assistance, as aid agencies have been systematically looted and at least 18 humanitarian workers killed. \n\n","htmlText":"<p><strong>As fighting in Sudan entered a fifth week, shelling and air strikes pounded parts of the capital, Khartoum, on Sunday with little sign that warring military factions were ready to back down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A witness in the west of the city reported army air strikes on paramilitary forces, as brutal urban warfare continued in Sudan&#039;s densely-populated capital.<\/p>\n<p>This comes even as representatives of the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continue holding talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at preventing a \"humanitarian catastrophe\" in their country.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting erupted on 15 April between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy turned rival Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who commands the RSF.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations said on Sunday that more than 750 people have been killed and over 5,000 others injured in the unrest, although the real death toll is expected to be much higher.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sudanese continue to flee the ongoing fighting. An estimated 200,000 people have escaped into neighbouring countries while more than 700,000 have been internally displaced.<\/p>\n<p>At the Argeen border with neighbouring Egypt, new families arrive every day, making the 1,000 kilometre journey from Khartoum through the desert in search of safety.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone has the financial means to be able to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\"The bus ride costs $250 a person. Then there\u2019s the official tariffs on both sides of the crossing and rental for a place to live in Egypt. Not everyone can afford this, it&#039;s a large expense,\" said evacuee Wahag Gafar Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>She said the trip was \u201creally tiring and scary\", adding that the war in her country had \"affected everyone\".<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations says over half a million people have fled Khartoum alone, with hospitals in the capital shelled and rampant looting reported as residents suffer under chronic shortages of food, electricity, and medicine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1657099069662326785\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hopes for a ceasefire remain dim after multiple truces were violated in the past weeks.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Sudan launched a call to the international community, including the United Nations, the African Union, and other regional organisations, \"to provide humanitarian assistance\".<\/p>\n<p>Civilians and aid groups have repeatedly pleaded for humanitarian corridors to secure vital assistance, as aid agencies have been systematically looted and at least 18 humanitarian workers killed.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1684093230,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1684131626,"firstPublishedAt":1684131629,"lastPublishedAt":1684131629,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/46\/06\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_38e7b9b7-3d11-5a93-ad30-dbe1a806a5df-7564606.jpg","altText":"Sudanese evacuees at Egyptian border","caption":"Sudanese evacuees at Egyptian border","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"STR\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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INTERNALLY DISPLACED","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes in Sudan amid fighting","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes in Sudan","titleListing2":"The number of people displaced in Sudan has doubled in a week from 340,000 to 700,000, the International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday.","leadin":"The number of people displaced in Sudan has doubled in a week from 340,000 to 700,000, the International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday.","summary":"The number of people displaced in Sudan has doubled in a week from 340,000 to 700,000, the International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday.","keySentence":"","url":"hundreds-of-thusdands-forced-to-flee-their-homes-in-sudan-amid-fighting","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/09\/hundreds-of-thusdands-forced-to-flee-their-homes-in-sudan-amid-fighting","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"More than 700,000 people have fled their homes in Sudan to escape from fighting between rival military factions, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. \n\nOver 150,000 people have left the country since the conflict began on 15 April.\u00a0Last week, the UN agency said about 340,000 people were internally displaced. \n\n\"It's very difficult right now (for them) to find money,\"\u00a0 IOM spokesperson Paul Dillon said. \"The ATMs aren't working and the banking system is not functioning. Fuel is difficult to come by and expensive.\"\u00a0 \n\nAt the same briefing, the World Health Organization said 604 people had been killed and more than 5,000 injured since the violence erupted. \n\nAccording to UN estimates, an additional five million people will require humanitarian aid, bringing the total to 21 million people since the war began. \n\n\u201cNo major progress\u201d has been made at the talks in Jeddah, where the warring sides have sent representatives, a Saudi diplomat told agencies. \n\n\u201cA permanent ceasefire isn't on the table. Every side believes it is capable of winning the battle,\u201d the source said. \n\nKholood Khair, the founder of the Khartoum-based think tank Confluence Advisory, said the delegations \u201care there mostly to curry favours with the Saudis and the Americans, rather than to credibly use this platform as a means to reach an agreement\u201d. \n\nSeveral ceasefires have been breached as both sides continued to launch attacks and compete for military gain. \n\nThe aid operation in Sudan remains severely underfunded. \n\n\u201cThe only fully funded operation in the world now is in Ukraine. All other operations are catastrophically underfunded,\u201d said Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council. \n\nThese events are the consequence of a fight for power since a 2021 military coup between two generals:\u00a0army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan and RSF (Rapid Support Forces) commander Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.\u00a0 \n\nBoth generals have positioned themselves as saviours of Sudan and guardians of democracy \u2013 in a country which has known only brief democratic interludes. \n\nThe battles that began in April followed bitter disagreements between Burhan and Daglo over the planned integration of the RSF into the regular army \u2013 a key condition for a final deal aimed at resuming the democratic transition. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>More than 700,000 people have fled their homes in Sudan to escape from fighting between rival military factions, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Over 150,000 people have left the country since the conflict began on 15 April.\u00a0Last week, the UN agency said about 340,000 people were internally displaced.<\/p>\n<p>\"It&#039;s very difficult right now (for them) to find money,\"\u00a0 IOM spokesperson Paul Dillon said. \"The ATMs aren&#039;t working and the banking system is not functioning. Fuel is difficult to come by and expensive.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the same briefing, the World Health Organization said 604 people had been killed and more than 5,000 injured since the violence erupted.<\/p>\n<p>According to UN estimates, an additional five million people will require humanitarian aid, bringing the total to 21 million people since the war began.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//59//04//98//808x539_cmsv2_40d6f50e-44dd-5d71-bee6-75410b30ec31-7590498.jpg/" alt=\"Amr Nabil\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/04\/98\/384x256_cmsv2_40d6f50e-44dd-5d71-bee6-75410b30ec31-7590498.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/04\/98\/640x427_cmsv2_40d6f50e-44dd-5d71-bee6-75410b30ec31-7590498.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/04\/98\/750x500_cmsv2_40d6f50e-44dd-5d71-bee6-75410b30ec31-7590498.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/04\/98\/828x552_cmsv2_40d6f50e-44dd-5d71-bee6-75410b30ec31-7590498.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/04\/98\/1080x720_cmsv2_40d6f50e-44dd-5d71-bee6-75410b30ec31-7590498.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/04\/98\/1200x800_cmsv2_40d6f50e-44dd-5d71-bee6-75410b30ec31-7590498.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/04\/98\/1920x1281_cmsv2_40d6f50e-44dd-5d71-bee6-75410b30ec31-7590498.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Saudi commando stands alert as Yemeni evacuees disembark Saudi HMS Abha ship, coming from Port Sudan, after docking at Jeddah port, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, May 7, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Amr Nabil\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo major progress\u201d has been made at the talks in Jeddah, where the warring sides have sent representatives, a Saudi diplomat told agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA permanent ceasefire isn&#039;t on the table. Every side believes it is capable of winning the battle,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Kholood Khair, the founder of the Khartoum-based think tank Confluence Advisory, said the delegations \u201care there mostly to curry favours with the Saudis and the Americans, rather than to credibly use this platform as a means to reach an agreement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Several ceasefires have been breached as both sides continued to launch attacks and compete for military gain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7589452,7583524,7579778\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//05//un-seven-children-killed-or-wounded-every-hour-in-sudan-war/">UN: Seven children killed or wounded every hour in Sudan war<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//09//fighting-in-khartoum-as-truce-talks-between-sudans-warring-sides-stall/">Fighting in Khartoum as truce talks between Sudan\u2019s warring sides stall <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//05//04//sudanese-actress-asia-abdelmajid-killed-in-crossfire-in-khartoum/">Sudanese actress Asia Abdelmajid killed in crossfire in Khartoum<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The aid operation in Sudan remains severely underfunded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only fully funded operation in the world now is in Ukraine. All other operations are catastrophically underfunded,\u201d said Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council.<\/p>\n<p>These events are the consequence of a fight for power since a 2021 military coup between two generals:\u00a0army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan and RSF (Rapid Support Forces) commander Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both generals have positioned themselves as saviours of Sudan and guardians of democracy \u2013 in a country which has known only brief democratic interludes.<\/p>\n<p>The battles that began in April followed bitter disagreements between Burhan and Daglo over the planned integration of the RSF into the regular army \u2013 a key condition for a final deal aimed at resuming the democratic transition.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683624899,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1683640205,"firstPublishedAt":1683640208,"lastPublishedAt":1683641296,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/05\/04\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_835258cf-cc21-5b36-82b3-653688e4b652-7590504.jpg","altText":"People fleeing their homes in Sudan.","caption":"People fleeing their homes in Sudan.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Peter Louis\/AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/04\/98\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_40d6f50e-44dd-5d71-bee6-75410b30ec31-7590498.jpg","altText":"A Saudi commando stands alert as Yemeni evacuees disembark Saudi HMS Abha ship, coming from Port Sudan, after docking at Jeddah port, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, May 7, 2023.","caption":"A Saudi commando stands alert as Yemeni evacuees disembark Saudi HMS Abha ship, coming from Port Sudan, after docking at Jeddah port, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, May 7, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Amr Nabil\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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ARMY ENVOYS SENT TO SAUDI ARABIA","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Sudan's warring parties hold first negotiations in Saudi Arabia","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Sudan's warring parties open negotiations in Saudi Arabia","titleListing2":"Sudan's warring parties hold first negotiations in Saudi Arabia","leadin":"The negotiations are taking place in Jeddah on Saturday and would be the first between Sudan\u2019s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since clashes broke out on April 15.","summary":"The negotiations are taking place in Jeddah on Saturday and would be the first between Sudan\u2019s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since clashes broke out on April 15.","keySentence":"","url":"sudans-warring-parties-due-to-start-negotiations-in-saudi-arabia","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/06\/sudans-warring-parties-due-to-start-negotiations-in-saudi-arabia","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Sudan\u2019s two warring generals sent their envoys on Friday to Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at firming up a shaky cease-fire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed the African country to the brink of collapse, three Sudanese officials said. \n\nThe negotiations would be the first between Sudan\u2019s military, led by General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, commanded by General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, since clashes broke out on April 15. \n\nAccording to the three \u2014 two senior military officials and one from their paramilitary rival \u2014 the talks will begin in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah on Saturday, following concerted efforts by Riyad and other international powers to pressure the warring sides in Sudan to the negotiating table. \n\nThe three officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the upcoming peace talks. No timeframe was given for the length of the talks. \n\nThe fighting has turned Sudan's capital of Khartoum and other urban areas into battlefields and pushed hundreds of thousands from their homes. There is increasing concern for those trapped and displaced by the fighting, and aid workers and civilians have said there is a dire lack of basic services, medical care, food and water. \n\nForeign governments have rushed to evacuate their diplomats and thousands of foreign nationals from Sudan. Saudi warships have been ferrying those fleeing from Port Sudan, on Sudan\u2019s Red Sea coast, which has now become the entry hub for aid sent to the embattled nation. \n\nFragile cease-fires \n\nA series of fragile and often violated cease-fires over the past three weeks has failed to stop the fighting. Fierce battles raged Friday in areas around the military\u2019s headquarters and the international airport in Khartoum, according to residents.\u00a0 \n\nAccording to the three officials, the talks in Jeddah would address the opening of humanitarian corridors in Khartoum and the adjacent city of Omdurman, which have been the centres of the battles. \n\nOne of the military officials said the talks are part of an initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia and the United States. He said they would also discuss providing protection to civilian infrastructure, including health facilities. \n\nThe RSF official said Saudi and American officials would facilitate the talks. He said they would also discuss a mechanism to monitor the cease-fire and confirmed on Friday that the RSF delegation had left for Jeddah. Sudan's military also later said its delegation had departed to Saudi Arabia, saying the talks would discuss \u201cdetails of the truce,\u201d without elaborating. \n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meanwhile, discussed the initiative in a phone call with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It said the initiative aims to \u201cprepare the ground\u201d for dialogue to deescalate tensions in the African country. The statement also did not provide further details. \n\nUS State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Blinken expressed his \u201cgratitude for Saudi Arabia\u2019s invaluable assistance in facilitating the safe arrival in Jeddah of U.S. citizens and their family members departing Sudan.\u201d \n\nThe two top diplomats \u201caffirmed their countries\u2019 intensive collaboration on diplomatic work to bring about an end to the fighting in Sudan,\u201d Miller said. \n\nThe United Nations envoy in Sudan, Volker Perthes, lauded the move as \u201ca positive sign,\u201d but cautioned about high expectations from the meeting. \n\n\u201cIt is a positive sign, a sign of getting more realistic, realizing that there will be no easy or quick win,\u201d he told the AP from Port Sudan. \u201cWe need to realize, however, that this is a first encounter.\u201d \n\nThe meeting may be \u201cexploratory rather than concrete,\u201d he said and added that achieving a \u201clasting cease-fire\u201d would need more than one meeting. \n\nAid groups warn of worsening humanitarian situation \n\nThe battle for control of Sudan, which capped months of tensions between Burhan and Dagalo, has so far killed at least 550 people, including civilians, and \u2014 as of Monday \u2014 wounded more than 4,900, according to the Sudanese Health Ministry. \n\nThe Sudanese Doctors\u2019 Syndicate, which tracks only civilian casualties, said Friday that 473 civilians have been killed in the violence, and more than 2,450 have been wounded. \n\nJames Elder, a spokesman for the UN Children's Agency, UNICEF, said at least 190 children have been killed and 1,700 have been wounded in the fighting. \n\n\u201cThis means that every single hour, you have seven boys or girls ... killed or injured,\u201d he said at a press conference Friday in Geneva. \u201cI think this is underlining the enormity of how violent this is.\u201d \n\nThe power struggle has put millions of Sudanese in the line of gun battles, artillery bombardments and airstrikes. So far, at least 334,000 people have been displaced inside Sudan, and tens of thousands more have crossed to neighbouring countries \u2014 Egypt, Chad, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Ethiopia, according to UN agencies. \n\nThe UN World Food Program projects that the number of acutely food insecure people in Sudan will increase by between 2 million and 2.5 million people \u2013 raising the number to a total of 19 million people \u2013 in the next three to six months if the current conflict continues, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said. The UN refugee agency announced that more than \u20ac400 million will be needed to support an estimated 860,000 Sudanese refugees fleeing Sudan to five countries affected by the emergency. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Sudan\u2019s two warring generals sent their envoys on Friday to Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at firming up a shaky cease-fire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed the African country to the brink of collapse, three Sudanese officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiations would be the first between Sudan\u2019s military, led by General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, commanded by General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, since clashes broke out on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>According to the three \u2014 two senior military officials and one from their paramilitary rival \u2014 the talks will begin in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah on Saturday, following concerted efforts by Riyad and other international powers to pressure the warring sides in Sudan to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>The three officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the upcoming peace talks. No timeframe was given for the length of the talks.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting has turned Sudan&#039;s capital of Khartoum and other urban areas into battlefields and pushed hundreds of thousands from their homes. There is increasing concern for those trapped and displaced by the fighting, and aid workers and civilians have said there is a dire lack of basic services, medical care, food and water.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign governments have rushed to evacuate their diplomats and thousands of foreign nationals from Sudan. Saudi warships have been ferrying those fleeing from Port Sudan, on Sudan\u2019s Red Sea coast, which has now become the entry hub for aid sent to the embattled nation.<\/p>\n<h2>Fragile cease-fires<\/h2><p>A series of fragile and often violated cease-fires over the past three weeks has failed to stop the fighting. Fierce battles raged Friday in areas around the military\u2019s headquarters and the international airport in Khartoum, according to residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the three officials, the talks in Jeddah would address the opening of humanitarian corridors in Khartoum and the adjacent city of Omdurman, which have been the centres of the battles.<\/p>\n<p>One of the military officials said the talks are part of an initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia and the United States. He said they would also discuss providing protection to civilian infrastructure, including health facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The RSF official said Saudi and American officials would facilitate the talks. He said they would also discuss a mechanism to monitor the cease-fire and confirmed on Friday that the RSF delegation had left for Jeddah. Sudan&#039;s military also later said its delegation had departed to Saudi Arabia, saying the talks would discuss \u201cdetails of the truce,\u201d without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meanwhile, discussed the initiative in a phone call with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It said the initiative aims to \u201cprepare the ground\u201d for dialogue to deescalate tensions in the African country. The statement also did not provide further details.<\/p>\n<p>US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Blinken expressed his \u201cgratitude for Saudi Arabia\u2019s invaluable assistance in facilitating the safe arrival in Jeddah of U.S. citizens and their family members departing Sudan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two top diplomats \u201caffirmed their countries\u2019 intensive collaboration on diplomatic work to bring about an end to the fighting in Sudan,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1654658658628763649\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The United Nations envoy in Sudan, Volker Perthes, lauded the move as \u201ca positive sign,\u201d but cautioned about high expectations from the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a positive sign, a sign of getting more realistic, realizing that there will be no easy or quick win,\u201d he told the AP from Port Sudan. \u201cWe need to realize, however, that this is a first encounter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meeting may be \u201cexploratory rather than concrete,\u201d he said and added that achieving a \u201clasting cease-fire\u201d would need more than one meeting.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Aid groups warn of worsening humanitarian situation<\/strong><\/h2><p>The battle for control of Sudan, which capped months of tensions between Burhan and Dagalo, has so far killed at least 550 people, including civilians, and \u2014 as of Monday \u2014 wounded more than 4,900, according to the Sudanese Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The Sudanese Doctors\u2019 Syndicate, which tracks only civilian casualties, said Friday that 473 civilians have been killed in the violence, and more than 2,450 have been wounded.<\/p>\n<p>James Elder, a spokesman for the UN Children&#039;s Agency, UNICEF, said at least 190 children have been killed and 1,700 have been wounded in the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that every single hour, you have seven boys or girls ... killed or injured,\u201d he said at a press conference Friday in Geneva. \u201cI think this is underlining the enormity of how violent this is.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1654559814205186049\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The power struggle has put millions of Sudanese in the line of gun battles, artillery bombardments and airstrikes. So far, at least 334,000 people have been displaced inside Sudan, and tens of thousands more have crossed to neighbouring countries \u2014 Egypt, Chad, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Ethiopia, according to UN agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The UN World Food Program projects that the number of acutely food insecure people in Sudan will increase by between 2 million and 2.5 million people \u2013 raising the number to a total of 19 million people \u2013 in the next three to six months if the current conflict continues, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said. The UN refugee agency announced that more than \u20ac400 million will be needed to support an estimated 860,000 Sudanese refugees fleeing Sudan to five countries affected by the emergency.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683325371,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1683354823,"firstPublishedAt":1683354826,"lastPublishedAt":1683355721,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/99\/16\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_075c9582-cc81-50d4-864a-37eb4b2024d1-7579916.jpg","altText":"Negotiations between the two warring parties are due to begin in Jeddah on Saturday. ","caption":"Negotiations between the two warring parties are due to begin in Jeddah on Saturday. ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Marwan Ali\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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numbers of children were dying in the Sudan conflict, pointing to reports indicating that seven children were being killed or injured every hour. \n\n\"As feared and as warned, the situation in Sudan has become fatal for a frighteningly large number of children,\" James Elder, spokesman for the UN children's agency UNICEF, told reporters in Geneva. \n\nHe said the agency had received reports from a trusted partner -- not yet independently verified by the UN -- that 190 children were killed and 1,700 injured in just the first 11 days of the conflict that began on April 15. \n\nElder pointed out that those numbers had been gathered from health facilities in Khartoum and the Darfur region. \n\nThat means it only covers the children that actually made it to healthcare facilities in those areas, he said, warning that \"the reality is likely to be much worse\". \n\nHundreds of people have been killed \n\nHundreds of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes in Sudan since battles began three weeks ago between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's forces and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo's Rapid Support Forces (RSF). \n\nThe sides have agreed to a string of short ceasefires, but none has been fully respected, and on Friday air strikes and gunfire continued to rock Khartoum for a 21st straight day. \n\nThe UN refugee agency also decried the dire situation in Sudan, urging all countries to refrain from returning Sudanese nationals to the country. \n\n\"UNHCR urges all countries to allow civilians fleeing Sudan non-discriminatory access to their territories,\" Elizabeth Tan, the agency's international protection chief, told reporters. \n\n\"This applies to Sudanese nationals, foreign nationals, including refugees who were being hosted by Sudan, stateless people, and those who are not in possession of passports or other identity documents,\" she said. \n\nUNHCR has said it is preparing for an outflow of 860,000 people from Sudan into neighbouring countries, with more than 113,000 people having already fled the country. \n\nHundreds of thousands have been displaced in Sudan \n\nHundreds of thousands more have been displaced inside Sudan. \n\n\"We are grateful to all the neighbouring countries who have allowed them to seek safety,\" Tan said. \n\nPointing to the current volatility in Sudan, she said the agency called on countries to \"suspend the issuance of negative decisions on asylum claims lodged by Sudanese nationals or stateless people who were habitually resident there.\" \n\nAnd she highlighted that previously delivered negative asylum decisions might need to be reconsidered. \n\n\"UNHCR is also calling on states to suspend forced returns to Sudan, including of people who have previously had their asylum claims rejected,\" she said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The UN warned on Friday that large numbers of children were dying in the Sudan conflict, pointing to reports indicating that seven children were being killed or injured every hour.<\/p>\n<p>\"As feared and as warned, the situation in Sudan has become fatal for a frighteningly large number of children,\" James Elder, spokesman for the UN children&#039;s agency UNICEF, told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>He said the agency had received reports from a trusted partner -- not yet independently verified by the UN -- that 190 children were killed and 1,700 injured in just the first 11 days of the conflict that began on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>Elder pointed out that those numbers had been gathered from health facilities in Khartoum and the Darfur region.<\/p>\n<p>That means it only covers the children that actually made it to healthcare facilities in those areas, he said, warning that \"the reality is likely to be much worse\".<\/p>\n<h2>Hundreds of people have been killed<\/h2><p>Hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes in Sudan since battles began three weeks ago between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan&#039;s forces and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo&#039;s Rapid Support Forces (RSF).<\/p>\n<p>The sides have agreed to a string of short ceasefires, but none has been fully respected, and on Friday air strikes and gunfire continued to rock Khartoum for a 21st straight day.<\/p>\n<p>The UN refugee agency also decried the dire situation in Sudan, urging all countries to refrain from returning Sudanese nationals to the country.<\/p>\n<p>\"UNHCR urges all countries to allow civilians fleeing Sudan non-discriminatory access to their territories,\" Elizabeth Tan, the agency&#039;s international protection chief, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\"This applies to Sudanese nationals, foreign nationals, including refugees who were being hosted by Sudan, stateless people, and those who are not in possession of passports or other identity documents,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>UNHCR has said it is preparing for an outflow of 860,000 people from Sudan into neighbouring countries, with more than 113,000 people having already fled the country.<\/p>\n<h2>Hundreds of thousands have been displaced in Sudan<\/h2><p>Hundreds of thousands more have been displaced inside Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are grateful to all the neighbouring countries who have allowed them to seek safety,\" Tan said.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to the current volatility in Sudan, she said the agency called on countries to \"suspend the issuance of negative decisions on asylum claims lodged by Sudanese nationals or stateless people who were habitually resident there.\"<\/p>\n<p>And she highlighted that previously delivered negative asylum decisions might need to be reconsidered.<\/p>\n<p>\"UNHCR is also calling on states to suspend forced returns to Sudan, including of people who have previously had their asylum claims rejected,\" she 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Others have been driven in packed buses and trucks, seeking shelter in Egypt, Sudan\u2019s northern neighbour. \n\n\u201cMuch of the capital has become empty,\u201d said Abdalla al-Fatih, a Khartoum resident, \u201call (residents of) our street fled the war.\u201d \n\nThe fighting, now in its third week, has turned Khartoum and its neighbouring city of Omdurman into a battlefield. Fierce clashes taking place inside residential neighbourhoods that have become \u201cghost areas,\u201d residents say. \n\nThe conflict, which capped months of worsening tensions, pits the military, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, against a rival paramilitary group, called the Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. \n\nAl-Fatih\u2019s family managed to get out of Khartoum over the weekend after they spent the past two weeks trapped in their home in Khartoum\u2019s neighbourhood of Kafouri, a major flashpoint since the fighting broke out on 15 April. \n\nThey arrived in Port Sudan late Monday, after an exhausting 20-hour trip, he said. There, they found thousands, including many women and children, camping outside the port area. Many had been there for more than a week, with no food and other services, he said. \n\nPort Sudan has become a hub for foreign governments to evacuate their citizens air and sea. \n\nAt the congested crossing points with Egypt, thousands of families have waited for days inside buses or sought temporary shelter in the border city of Wadi Halfa to finalize their paperwork to be allowed into Egypt. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Many exhausted Sudanese and foreigners arrived in Port Sudan, the country&#039;s main seaport, joining thousands who have waited for days to be evacuated out of the chaos-stricken nation. Others have been driven in packed buses and trucks, seeking shelter in Egypt, Sudan\u2019s northern neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch of the capital has become empty,\u201d said Abdalla al-Fatih, a Khartoum resident, \u201call (residents of) our street fled the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fighting, now in its third week, has turned Khartoum and its neighbouring city of Omdurman into a battlefield. Fierce clashes taking place inside residential neighbourhoods that have become \u201cghost areas,\u201d residents say.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict, which capped months of worsening tensions, pits the military, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, against a rival paramilitary group, called the Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7572550,7571042,7555196\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//01//hopes-that-sudan-peace-talks-could-take-place-in-saudi-arabia/">Hopes that Sudan peace talks could take place in Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//01//sudans-army-and-rival-extend-truce-despite-ongoing-clashes/">Sudan's army and rival RSF extend truce despite ongoing clashes<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//27//why-is-russias-wagner-group-in-sudan-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-the-war-in-ukraine/">Why is Russia's Wagner Group in Sudan, and what does it have to do with the war in Ukraine? <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Al-Fatih\u2019s family managed to get out of Khartoum over the weekend after they spent the past two weeks trapped in their home in Khartoum\u2019s neighbourhood of Kafouri, a major flashpoint since the fighting broke out on 15 April.<\/p>\n<p>They arrived in Port Sudan late Monday, after an exhausting 20-hour trip, he said. There, they found thousands, including many women and children, camping outside the port area. Many had been there for more than a week, with no food and other services, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Port Sudan has become a hub for foreign governments to evacuate their citizens air and sea.<\/p>\n<p>At the congested crossing points with Egypt, thousands of families have waited for days inside buses or sought temporary shelter in the border city of Wadi Halfa to finalize their paperwork to be allowed into Egypt.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1682971314,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1683022953,"firstPublishedAt":1683022955,"lastPublishedAt":1683022955,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/52\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_66ea85d7-a782-51c9-997f-068006a6686b-7571052.jpg","altText":"Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 22, 2023. Khartoum, a city of some 5 million people.","caption":"Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 22, 2023. Khartoum, a city of some 5 million people.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Marwan Ali\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/92\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_93729d4b-03be-5f40-b8a4-dbf7c062b205-7573392.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Donaig Le Du\/ Notice: UNICEF photographs are copyrighted and may not be reproduced in any medium without written permission from authorized","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":8029,"slug":"sudan","urlSafeValue":"sudan","title":"Sudan","titleRaw":"Sudan"},{"id":5110,"slug":"ceasefire","urlSafeValue":"ceasefire","title":"Ceasefire","titleRaw":"Ceasefire"},{"id":9419,"slug":"humanitarian-crisis","urlSafeValue":"humanitarian-crisis","title":"Humanitarian crisis","titleRaw":"Humanitarian crisis"},{"id":8151,"slug":"refugees","urlSafeValue":"refugees","title":"Refugees","titleRaw":"Refugees"},{"id":7898,"slug":"armed-conflicts","urlSafeValue":"armed-conflicts","title":"Armed conflicts","titleRaw":"Armed conflicts"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2265220}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/NW\/SU\/23\/05\/01\/en\/230501_NWSU_51457687_51457967_75000_165715_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":20000,"filesizeBytes":0,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/NW\/SU\/23\/05\/01\/en\/230501_NWSU_51457687_51457967_75000_165715_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":20000,"filesizeBytes":0,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"africa","title":"Africa"},"country":{"id":263,"urlSafeValue":"sudan","title":"Sudan","url":"\/news\/africa\/sudan"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gb_death_injury_news-ent','gs_war_conflict','gs_politics','gv_military','gt_negative','gt_negative_anger','gs_society'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2023\/05\/02\/more-than-330000-internally-displaced-by-fighting-in-sudan-un","lastModified":1683022955},{"id":2262184,"cid":7572550,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230501_NWSU_51457687","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"SUDAN UPDATE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Hopes that Sudan peace talks could take place in Saudi Arabia","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Saudi Arabia could host peace talks with warring parties from Sudan","titleListing2":"Hopes that Sudan peace talks could take place in Saudi Arabia","leadin":"There are hopes that the two sides in the Sudan crisis could meet for peace talks in Saudi Arabia. However, there have also been warnings that fighting could break out again with very little warning.","summary":"There are hopes that the two sides in the Sudan crisis could meet for peace talks in Saudi Arabia. However, there have also been warnings that fighting could break out again with very little warning.","keySentence":"","url":"hopes-that-sudan-peace-talks-could-take-place-in-saudi-arabia","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/01\/hopes-that-sudan-peace-talks-could-take-place-in-saudi-arabia","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Sudan's warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations' top official in the country told The Associated Press on Monday, even as the two sides clashed in the capital despite another three-day extension of a fragile cease-fire. \n\nIf the talks come together, they would initially focus on establishing a \"stable and reliable\" cease-fire monitored by national and international observers, Volker Perthes said, but he warned there were still challenges in holding the negotiations. A string of temporary truces over the past week has eased fighting only in some areas, but in others, fierce battles have continued to drive civilians from their homes and push the country into disaster. \n\nHumanitarian aid \n\nHumanitarian groups have been trying to restore the flow of help to a country where nearly a third of the population of 46 million relied on international aid even before the explosion of violence. The UN food agency on Monday said it was ending the temporary suspension of its operations in Sudan, put in place after three of its team members were killed in the war-wrecked Darfur region early in the fighting. \n\nThe World Food Program will resume food distribution in four provinces \u2014 al-Qadaref, Gezira, Kassala and White Nile \u2014 working in areas where security permits, said Executive Director Cindy McCain said in a statement. The numbers of those in need of help will \"grow significantly as fighting continues,\" she said. \"To best protect our necessary humanitarian workers and the people of Sudan, the fighting must stop.'' \n\nA day earlier, the International Committee of the Red Cross flew in a planeload of medical supplies to bring some relief to hospitals overwhelmed by the mayhem. \n\nThe United States conducted its first evacuation of American civilians from Sudan. Watched over by US\u00a0military drones, a group of Americans made the perilous journey by road from the capital, Khartoum, to the Red Sea city of Port Sudan. On Monday, a US Navy fast transport ship took 308 evacuees from Port Sudan to the Saudi port of Jeddah, according to Saudi officials. \n\nDirect talks, if they take place, would be the first major sign of progress since fighting erupted on April 15 between the army and a rival paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces. For much of the conflict, army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan and RSF commander Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo have appeared determined to fight to the end. \n\nTheir struggle for power has put millions of Sudanese in the middle of gun battles, artillery bombardments and airstrikes. Around 530 people, including civilians and combatants, have been killed in the conflict, with another 4,500 wounded, the Sudanese Health Ministry said. Tens of thousands have fled Khartoum and other cities, and more than two-thirds of hospitals in areas with active fighting are out of service, with fighters looting the dwindling supplies. \n\nExplosions in Khartoum \n\nExplosions and gunfire echoed in parts of Khartoum and its neighbouring city, Omdurman, on Monday, residents said, hours after the two sides committed to the 72-hour cease-fire extension. \n\nAtiya Abdalla Atiya, Secretary of the Doctors' Syndicate, said the fighting raged early Monday in different areas in the capital, including the military's headquarters, the Republican Palace, and the international airport. There were also clashes in the upscale neighbourhood of Kafouri, he said. \n\nMany hospitals in the capital remained out of service or inaccessible because of the fighting, while others have been occupied by the warring factions, particularly the RSF, he said. \n\nThe United States and Saudi Arabia have led an international push to get the generals to stop fighting, then engage in deeper negotiations to resolve the crisis. \n\nSpeaking from Port Sudan, the UN envoy Perthes said they still face daunting challenges in getting the two sides to abide by a real halt in fighting where violations are prevented. One possibility was to establish a monitoring mechanism that includes Sudanese and foreign observers, \"but that has to be negotiated,\" he said. \n\nExtending the cease-fire \n\nTalks on entrenching the cease-fire could take place in either Saudi Arabia or South Sudan, he said, adding that the former may be easier logistically since it has close ties to both sides. \n\nBut even arranging talks in Saudi Arabia has challenges, he said, since each side needs safe passage through territory of the other to reach talks. \"That is very difficult in a situation where there is a lack of trust,\" he said. \n\nThe eruption of fighting capped months of worsening disputes between Burhan and Dagalo as the international community tried to work out a deal for establishing civilian rule. \n\n\"We all saw the enormous tensions,\" Perthes said. \"But very concretely, we have to say that our efforts to de-escalate did not succeed.\" He said he had been warning repeatedly that \"any single spark\" could cause the power struggle to explode. \n\nPerthes warned of a \"major humanitarian crisis\" as people were running out of food and fresh water in Khartoum and fighting damaged water systems. \n\nA real cease-fire is vital to getting access to residents who are trapped in their homes or injured, he said. \"If we don't get a stable cease-fire, then it means that the humanitarian situation will be even worse.\" \n\nHe also warned the fighting could pull in other armed factions in a country where multiple groups have fought several civil wars over the past decade. \"And that could transform into a broader confrontation between different groups and communities and militias in the country,\" he said.\u00a0 \n\nMore than 500 people have been killed in the fighting, with many foreign nationals and Sudanese people fleeing the country. It is reported that 20,000 have sought refuge in neighbouring Chad. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Sudan&#039;s warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations&#039; top official in the country told The Associated Press on Monday, even as the two sides clashed in the capital despite another three-day extension of a fragile cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p>If the talks come together, they would initially focus on establishing a \"stable and reliable\" cease-fire monitored by national and international observers, Volker Perthes said, but he warned there were still challenges in holding the negotiations. A string of temporary truces over the past week has eased fighting only in some areas, but in others, fierce battles have continued to drive civilians from their homes and push the country into disaster.<\/p>\n<h2>Humanitarian aid<\/h2><p>Humanitarian groups have been trying to restore the flow of help to a country where nearly a third of the population of 46 million relied on international aid even before the explosion of violence. The UN food agency on Monday said it was ending the temporary suspension of its operations in Sudan, put in place after three of its team members were killed in the war-wrecked Darfur region early in the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>The World Food Program will resume food distribution in four provinces \u2014 al-Qadaref, Gezira, Kassala and White Nile \u2014 working in areas where security permits, said Executive Director Cindy McCain said in a statement. The numbers of those in need of help will \"grow significantly as fighting continues,\" she said. \"To best protect our necessary humanitarian workers and the people of Sudan, the fighting must stop.&#039;&#039;<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, the International Committee of the Red Cross flew in a planeload of medical supplies to bring some relief to hospitals overwhelmed by the mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>The United States conducted its first evacuation of American civilians from Sudan. Watched over by US\u00a0military drones, a group of Americans made the perilous journey by road from the capital, Khartoum, to the Red Sea city of Port Sudan. On Monday, a US Navy fast transport ship took 308 evacuees from Port Sudan to the Saudi port of Jeddah, according to Saudi officials.<\/p>\n<p>Direct talks, if they take place, would be the first major sign of progress since fighting erupted on April 15 between the army and a rival paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces. For much of the conflict, army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan and RSF commander Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo have appeared determined to fight to the end.<\/p>\n<p>Their struggle for power has put millions of Sudanese in the middle of gun battles, artillery bombardments and airstrikes. Around 530 people, including civilians and combatants, have been killed in the conflict, with another 4,500 wounded, the Sudanese Health Ministry said. Tens of thousands have fled Khartoum and other cities, and more than two-thirds of hospitals in areas with active fighting are out of service, with fighters looting the dwindling supplies.<\/p>\n<h2>Explosions in Khartoum<\/h2><p>Explosions and gunfire echoed in parts of Khartoum and its neighbouring city, Omdurman, on Monday, residents said, hours after the two sides committed to the 72-hour cease-fire extension.<\/p>\n<p>Atiya Abdalla Atiya, Secretary of the Doctors&#039; Syndicate, said the fighting raged early Monday in different areas in the capital, including the military&#039;s headquarters, the Republican Palace, and the international airport. There were also clashes in the upscale neighbourhood of Kafouri, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Many hospitals in the capital remained out of service or inaccessible because of the fighting, while others have been occupied by the warring factions, particularly the RSF, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Saudi Arabia have led an international push to get the generals to stop fighting, then engage in deeper negotiations to resolve the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from Port Sudan, the UN envoy Perthes said they still face daunting challenges in getting the two sides to abide by a real halt in fighting where violations are prevented. One possibility was to establish a monitoring mechanism that includes Sudanese and foreign observers, \"but that has to be negotiated,\" he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Extending the cease-fire<\/h2><p>Talks on entrenching the cease-fire could take place in either Saudi Arabia or South Sudan, he said, adding that the former may be easier logistically since it has close ties to both sides.<\/p>\n<p>But even arranging talks in Saudi Arabia has challenges, he said, since each side needs safe passage through territory of the other to reach talks. \"That is very difficult in a situation where there is a lack of trust,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>The eruption of fighting capped months of worsening disputes between Burhan and Dagalo as the international community tried to work out a deal for establishing civilian rule.<\/p>\n<p>\"We all saw the enormous tensions,\" Perthes said. \"But very concretely, we have to say that our efforts to de-escalate did not succeed.\" He said he had been warning repeatedly that \"any single spark\" could cause the power struggle to explode.<\/p>\n<p>Perthes warned of a \"major humanitarian crisis\" as people were running out of food and fresh water in Khartoum and fighting damaged water systems.<\/p>\n<p>A real cease-fire is vital to getting access to residents who are trapped in their homes or injured, he said. \"If we don&#039;t get a stable cease-fire, then it means that the humanitarian situation will be even worse.\"<\/p>\n<p>He also warned the fighting could pull in other armed factions in a country where multiple groups have fought several civil wars over the past decade. \"And that could transform into a broader confrontation between different groups and communities and militias in the country,\" he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 people have been killed in the fighting, with many foreign nationals and Sudanese people fleeing the country. It is reported that 20,000 have sought refuge in neighbouring Chad.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1682944956,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1682950048,"firstPublishedAt":1682950061,"lastPublishedAt":1683016144,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/25\/50\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9cd4e5da-023d-5938-a409-2185f507d809-7572550.jpg","altText":"American nationals are searched by the U.S. soldiers before boarding a ship in Port Sudan, Sunday, April 30, 2023. ","caption":"American nationals are searched by the U.S. soldiers before boarding a ship in Port Sudan, Sunday, April 30, 2023. ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Smowal Abdalla\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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The decision follows international pressure to allow the safe passage of civilians and aid, but the shaky truce has not stopped the clashes so far.","summary":"Sudan's army and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said Sunday they would extend a humanitarian cease-fire for a further 72 hours. The decision follows international pressure to allow the safe passage of civilians and aid, but the shaky truce has not stopped the clashes so far.","keySentence":"","url":"sudans-army-and-rival-extend-truce-despite-ongoing-clashes","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/01\/sudans-army-and-rival-extend-truce-despite-ongoing-clashes","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Both sides have accused the other of violations. The agreement has de-escalated the fighting in some areas but violence continues to push civilians to flee. Aid groups have also struggled to get badly needed supplies into the country. \n\nThe conflict erupted on 15 April between the nation\u2019s army and its paramilitary force and threatens to thrust Sudan into a raging civil war. The UN warned on Sunday that the humanitarian crisis in Sudan was at \u201ca breaking point.\u201d \n\n\u201cThe scale and speed of what is unfolding in Sudan is unprecedented,\u201d the UN\u2019s humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement. \n\nHe said water and food are becoming increasingly hard to find in the country\u2019s cities, especially the capital, Khartoum, and that the lack of basic medical care means many could die of preventable causes. Griffiths said that \u201cmassive looting\u201d of aid supplies has hindered efforts to help civilians. \n\nEarlier Sunday, an aircraft carrying eight tons of emergency medical aid landed in Sudan to resupply hospitals devastated by the fighting, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which organised the shipment. It arrived as the civilian death toll from the countrywide violence topped 400 and aid groups warned that the humanitarian situation was becoming increasingly dire. \n\nMore than two-thirds of hospitals in areas with active fighting are out of service, a national doctors' association has said, citing a shortage of medical supplies, health workers, water and electricity. \n\nThe air-lifted supplies, including anaesthetics, dressings, sutures and other surgical materials, are enough to treat more than 1,000 people wounded in the conflict, the ICRC said. The aircraft took off earlier in the day from Jordan and safely landed in the city of Port Sudan, it said. \n\n\u201cThe hope is to get this material to some of the most critically busy hospitals in the capital\u201d of Khartoum and other hot spots, said Patrick Youssef, ICRC\u2019s regional director for Africa. \n\nThe Sudan Doctors\u2019 Syndicate, which monitors casualties, said Sunday that over the past two weeks, 425 civilians were killed and 2,091 wounded. The Sudanese Health Ministry on Saturday put the overall death toll, including fighters, at 528, with 4,500 wounded. \n\nSome of the deadliest battles have raged across Khartoum. The fighting pits the army chief, Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, against Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the head of a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces. \n\nThe generals, both with powerful foreign backers, were allies in an October 2021 military coup that halted Sudan's fitful transition to democracy, but they have since turned on each other. \n\nOrdinary Sudanese have been caught in the crossfire. Tens of thousands have fled to neighbouring countries, including Chad and Egypt, while others remain pinned down with dwindling supplies. Thousands of foreigners have been evacuated in airlifts and land convoys. \n\nOn Sunday, fighting continued in different parts of the capital where residents hiding in their homes reported hearing artillery fire. There have been lulls in the fighting, but never a fully observed cease-fire, despite repeated attempts by international mediators. \n\nOver the weekend, residents reported that shops were reopening and normalcy gradually returning in some areas of Khartoum as the scale of fighting dwindled after yet another shaky truce. But in other areas, terrified residents reported explosions thundering around them and fighters ransacking houses. \n\nYoussef, the ICRC official, said the agency has been in contact with the top command of both sides to ensure that medical assistance could reach hospitals safely. \n\n\u201cWith this news today, we are really hoping that this becomes part of a steady coordination mechanism to allow other flights to come in,\u201d he said. \n\nYoussef said more medical aid was ready to be flown into Khartoum pending necessary clearances and security guarantees. \n\nSudan\u2019s healthcare system is near collapse with dozens of hospitals out of service. Multiple aid agencies have had to suspend operations and evacuated employees. \n\nOn Sunday, a second US-government organized convoy arrived in Port Sudan, said State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller. He said the US is assisting American citizens and \u201cothers who are eligible\u201d to leave for Saudi Arabia where US personnel are located. There were no details on how many people were in the convoy or specific assistance the US provided. \n\nMost of the estimated 16,000 Americans believed to be in Sudan right now are dual US-Sudanese nationals. The Defence Department said in a statement on Saturday it was moving naval assets toward Sudan's coast to support further evacuations. \n\nMeanwhile, Britain has announced that an extra evacuation flight will depart from Port Sudan on Monday, extending what it called the largest evacuation effort of any Western country from Sudan. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Both sides have accused the other of violations. The agreement has de-escalated the fighting in some areas but violence continues to push civilians to flee. Aid groups have also struggled to get badly needed supplies into the country.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict erupted on 15 April between the nation\u2019s army and its paramilitary force and threatens to thrust Sudan into a raging civil war. The UN warned on Sunday that the humanitarian crisis in Sudan was at \u201ca breaking point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scale and speed of what is unfolding in Sudan is unprecedented,\u201d the UN\u2019s humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He said water and food are becoming increasingly hard to find in the country\u2019s cities, especially the capital, Khartoum, and that the lack of basic medical care means many could die of preventable causes. Griffiths said that \u201cmassive looting\u201d of aid supplies has hindered efforts to help civilians.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//57//10//42//808x539_cmsv2_eee3b5c5-5a86-5a9c-b87c-7c253f83a211-7571042.jpg/" alt=\"Marwan Ali\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/384x256_cmsv2_eee3b5c5-5a86-5a9c-b87c-7c253f83a211-7571042.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/640x427_cmsv2_eee3b5c5-5a86-5a9c-b87c-7c253f83a211-7571042.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/750x500_cmsv2_eee3b5c5-5a86-5a9c-b87c-7c253f83a211-7571042.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/828x552_cmsv2_eee3b5c5-5a86-5a9c-b87c-7c253f83a211-7571042.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/1080x720_cmsv2_eee3b5c5-5a86-5a9c-b87c-7c253f83a211-7571042.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/1200x800_cmsv2_eee3b5c5-5a86-5a9c-b87c-7c253f83a211-7571042.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/1920x1281_cmsv2_eee3b5c5-5a86-5a9c-b87c-7c253f83a211-7571042.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A vehicle crosses an empty street in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 29, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Marwan Ali\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Earlier Sunday, an aircraft carrying eight tons of emergency medical aid landed in Sudan to resupply hospitals devastated by the fighting, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which organised the shipment. It arrived as the civilian death toll from the countrywide violence topped 400 and aid groups warned that the humanitarian situation was becoming increasingly dire.<\/p>\n<p>More than two-thirds of hospitals in areas with active fighting are out of service, a national doctors&#039; association has said, citing a shortage of medical supplies, health workers, water and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The air-lifted supplies, including anaesthetics, dressings, sutures and other surgical materials, are enough to treat more than 1,000 people wounded in the conflict, the ICRC said. The aircraft took off earlier in the day from Jordan and safely landed in the city of Port Sudan, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hope is to get this material to some of the most critically busy hospitals in the capital\u201d of Khartoum and other hot spots, said Patrick Youssef, ICRC\u2019s regional director for Africa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7569450,7565922\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//30//as-battle-for-sudan-continues-civilian-deaths-top-400/">As battle for Sudan continues, civilian deaths top 400<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//28//eu-citizens-continue-to-be-brought-to-safety-amid-ongoing-unrest-in-sudan/">EU citizens continue to be brought to safety amid ongoing unrest in Sudan<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Sudan Doctors\u2019 Syndicate, which monitors casualties, said Sunday that over the past two weeks, 425 civilians were killed and 2,091 wounded. The Sudanese Health Ministry on Saturday put the overall death toll, including fighters, at 528, with 4,500 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the deadliest battles have raged across Khartoum. The fighting pits the army chief, Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, against Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the head of a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The generals, both with powerful foreign backers, were allies in an October 2021 military coup that halted Sudan&#039;s fitful transition to democracy, but they have since turned on each other.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinary Sudanese have been caught in the crossfire. Tens of thousands have fled to neighbouring countries, including Chad and Egypt, while others remain pinned down with dwindling supplies. Thousands of foreigners have been evacuated in airlifts and land convoys.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//57//10//42//808x608_cmsv2_a8315dde-6c1b-545c-85a3-e57e73460a12-7571042.jpg/" alt=\"Smowal Abdalla\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/384x288_cmsv2_a8315dde-6c1b-545c-85a3-e57e73460a12-7571042.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/640x480_cmsv2_a8315dde-6c1b-545c-85a3-e57e73460a12-7571042.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/750x563_cmsv2_a8315dde-6c1b-545c-85a3-e57e73460a12-7571042.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/828x621_cmsv2_a8315dde-6c1b-545c-85a3-e57e73460a12-7571042.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/1080x810_cmsv2_a8315dde-6c1b-545c-85a3-e57e73460a12-7571042.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/1200x900_cmsv2_a8315dde-6c1b-545c-85a3-e57e73460a12-7571042.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/1920x1440_cmsv2_a8315dde-6c1b-545c-85a3-e57e73460a12-7571042.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">American nationals are searched by the U.S. soldiers before boarding a ship in Port Sudan, Sunday, April 30, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Smowal Abdalla\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, fighting continued in different parts of the capital where residents hiding in their homes reported hearing artillery fire. There have been lulls in the fighting, but never a fully observed cease-fire, despite repeated attempts by international mediators.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, residents reported that shops were reopening and normalcy gradually returning in some areas of Khartoum as the scale of fighting dwindled after yet another shaky truce. But in other areas, terrified residents reported explosions thundering around them and fighters ransacking houses.<\/p>\n<p>Youssef, the ICRC official, said the agency has been in contact with the top command of both sides to ensure that medical assistance could reach hospitals safely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this news today, we are really hoping that this becomes part of a steady coordination mechanism to allow other flights to come in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Youssef said more medical aid was ready to be flown into Khartoum pending necessary clearances and security guarantees.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7555196\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//27//why-is-russias-wagner-group-in-sudan-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-the-war-in-ukraine/">Why is Russia's Wagner Group in Sudan, and what does it have to do with the war in Ukraine? <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sudan\u2019s healthcare system is near collapse with dozens of hospitals out of service. Multiple aid agencies have had to suspend operations and evacuated employees.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, a second US-government organized convoy arrived in Port Sudan, said State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller. He said the US is assisting American citizens and \u201cothers who are eligible\u201d to leave for Saudi Arabia where US personnel are located. There were no details on how many people were in the convoy or specific assistance the US provided.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the estimated 16,000 Americans believed to be in Sudan right now are dual US-Sudanese nationals. The Defence Department said in a statement on Saturday it was moving naval assets toward Sudan&#039;s coast to support further evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Britain has announced that an extra evacuation flight will depart from Port Sudan on Monday, extending what it called the largest evacuation effort of any Western country from Sudan.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1682901893,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1682915797,"firstPublishedAt":1682915799,"lastPublishedAt":1682921022,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/06\/68\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_89dea773-a72e-54e5-b451-2485ba34ea24-7570668.jpg","altText":"Smoke rises in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 29, 2023, as gunfire and heavy artillery fire continue despite the extension of a cease-fire between the country's top generals","caption":"Smoke rises in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 29, 2023, as gunfire and heavy artillery fire continue despite the extension of a cease-fire between the country's top generals","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Marwan Ali\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/10\/42\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a8315dde-6c1b-545c-85a3-e57e73460a12-7571042.jpg","altText":"American nationals are searched by the U.S. soldiers before boarding a ship in Port Sudan, Sunday, April 30, 2023. ","caption":"American nationals are searched by the U.S. soldiers before boarding a ship in Port Sudan, Sunday, April 30, 2023. ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Smowal Abdalla\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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In some areas in and around the capital, residents reported that shops were reopening and normalcy gradually returning as the scale of fighting dwindled after the shaky truce. But in other areas, terrified residents reported explosions thundering around them and fighters ransacking houses. \n\nNow in its third week, the fighting has wounded 2,023 civilians, the syndicate added, although the true toll is expected to be much higher. The Sudanese Health Ministry put the overall death toll, including fighters, at 528, with 4,500 wounded. In the city of Genena, the provincial capital of war-ravaged West Darfur, intensified violence has killed 89 people, the Doctors' Syndicate said. \n\nKhartoum, a city of some five million people, has been transformed into a front line in the grinding conflict between Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, the commander of Sudan\u2019s military, and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, who leads the powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces. The outbreak of violence has dashed once-euphoric hopes for a democratic transition in Sudan after a popular uprising helped oust former dictator Omar al-Bashir. \n\nForeign countries continued to evacuate their citizens while hundreds of thousands of Sudanese fled across borders. The first convoy organised by the United States to evacuate hundreds of American citizens from the conflict reached the coastal city of Port Sudan Saturday after a dangerous overland journey escorted by armed drones. \n\nBritain, meanwhile, ended its evacuation flights Saturday, after demand for spots on the planes declined. The United Arab Emirates announced Saturday it had started evacuating its own citizens along with nationals of 16 other countries. \n\nMore than 50,000 Sudanese refugees - mostly women and children - have crossed over to Chad, Egypt, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, the United Nations said, raising fears of regional instability. Ethnic fighting and turmoil have scarred South Sudan and the Central African Republic for years while a 2021 coup has derailed Chad's own democratic transition. \n\nThose who escape the fighting in Khartoum face more dangers on their way to safety. The route to Port Sudan, where ships evacuate people via the Red Sea, has proven long, exhausting and risky. Hatim el-Madani, a former journalist, said that paramilitary fighters were stopping refugees at roadblocks outside Khartoum, demanding they hand over their phones and valuables. \n\n\u201cThere's an outlaw, bandit-like nature to the RSF,\u201d he said, referring to Dagalo's Rapid Support Forces. \u201cThey don't have a supply line in place. That could get worse in the coming days.\u201d \n\nAirlifts from the country amid the chaotic fighting also posed challenges, with a Turkish evacuation plane even hit by gunfire outside Khartoum on Friday. \n\nOn Saturday - despite a cease-fire extended under heavy international pressure early Friday - clashes continued around the presidential palace, headquarters of the state broadcaster and a military base in Khartoum, residents said. The battles sent thick columns of black smoke billowing over the city skyline. \n\nBut in other areas, residents reported signs that the cease-fire had taken hold. \n\n\u201cWe are not hearing the bombs as we did before, so we're hoping that this means they will go back to a political process,\u201d said Osman Mirgany, a columnist and editor of the daily al-Tayar, who assessed it was safe enough on Friday to return home to Khartoum after seeking refuge in a far-flung village. \n\nBut Khartoum residents are forced to live side by side with armed fighters. Many RSF militants have moved into civilian homes and taken over stores and hospitals in the capital. The paramilitary group even transformed Mirgany's newsroom into a makeshift base, he said. Residents also must cope without sufficient electricity and running water, among other basic supplies. \n\n\u201cFor the past 14 days we've suffered from a lack of everything,\u201d Mirgany said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>With ordinary Sudanese caught in the crossfire, the civilian death toll jumped Saturday to 411 people, according to the Sudan Doctors&#039; Syndicate, which monitors casualties. In some areas in and around the capital, residents reported that shops were reopening and normalcy gradually returning as the scale of fighting dwindled after the shaky truce. But in other areas, terrified residents reported explosions thundering around them and fighters ransacking houses.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its third week, the fighting has wounded 2,023 civilians, the syndicate added, although the true toll is expected to be much higher. The Sudanese Health Ministry put the overall death toll, including fighters, at 528, with 4,500 wounded. In the city of Genena, the provincial capital of war-ravaged West Darfur, intensified violence has killed 89 people, the Doctors&#039; Syndicate said.<\/p>\n<p>Khartoum, a city of some five million people, has been transformed into a front line in the grinding conflict between Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, the commander of Sudan\u2019s military, and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, who leads the powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces. The outbreak of violence has dashed once-euphoric hopes for a democratic transition in Sudan after a popular uprising helped oust former dictator Omar al-Bashir.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7568324,7565922,7565346\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//29//heavy-clashes-rock-sudans-capital-despite-truce-extension/">Heavy clashes rock Sudan\u2019s capital despite truce extension<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//28//eu-citizens-continue-to-be-brought-to-safety-amid-ongoing-unrest-in-sudan/">EU citizens continue to be brought to safety amid ongoing unrest in Sudan<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//28//sudans-warring-factions-agree-to-extend-truce-but-fighting-goes-on/">Sudan's warring factions agree to extend truce but fighting goes on<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Foreign countries continued to evacuate their citizens while hundreds of thousands of Sudanese fled across borders. The first convoy organised by the United States to evacuate hundreds of American citizens from the conflict reached the coastal city of Port Sudan Saturday after a dangerous overland journey escorted by armed drones.<\/p>\n<p>Britain, meanwhile, ended its evacuation flights Saturday, after demand for spots on the planes declined. The United Arab Emirates announced Saturday it had started evacuating its own citizens along with nationals of 16 other countries.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50,000 Sudanese refugees - mostly women and children - have crossed over to Chad, Egypt, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, the United Nations said, raising fears of regional instability. Ethnic fighting and turmoil have scarred South Sudan and the Central African Republic for years while a 2021 coup has derailed Chad&#039;s own democratic transition.<\/p>\n<p>Those who escape the fighting in Khartoum face more dangers on their way to safety. The route to Port Sudan, where ships evacuate people via the Red Sea, has proven long, exhausting and risky. Hatim el-Madani, a former journalist, said that paramilitary fighters were stopping refugees at roadblocks outside Khartoum, demanding they hand over their phones and valuables.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//56//94//50//808x539_cmsv2_9cb6a1fc-c351-5948-94a5-e938dbdc910a-7569450.jpg/" alt=\"Lars Klemmer\/(c) Copyright 2023, dpa (www.dpa.de). Alle Rechte vorbehalten\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/94\/50\/384x256_cmsv2_9cb6a1fc-c351-5948-94a5-e938dbdc910a-7569450.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/94\/50\/640x427_cmsv2_9cb6a1fc-c351-5948-94a5-e938dbdc910a-7569450.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/94\/50\/750x500_cmsv2_9cb6a1fc-c351-5948-94a5-e938dbdc910a-7569450.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/94\/50\/828x552_cmsv2_9cb6a1fc-c351-5948-94a5-e938dbdc910a-7569450.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/94\/50\/1080x720_cmsv2_9cb6a1fc-c351-5948-94a5-e938dbdc910a-7569450.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/94\/50\/1200x800_cmsv2_9cb6a1fc-c351-5948-94a5-e938dbdc910a-7569450.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/94\/50\/1920x1281_cmsv2_9cb6a1fc-c351-5948-94a5-e938dbdc910a-7569450.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock received nearly 400 members of the German armed forces after the rescue mission in Sudan.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Lars Klemmer\/(c) Copyright 2023, dpa (www.dpa.de). Alle Rechte vorbehalten<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere&#039;s an outlaw, bandit-like nature to the RSF,\u201d he said, referring to Dagalo&#039;s Rapid Support Forces. \u201cThey don&#039;t have a supply line in place. That could get worse in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Airlifts from the country amid the chaotic fighting also posed challenges, with a Turkish evacuation plane even hit by gunfire outside Khartoum on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday - despite a cease-fire extended under heavy international pressure early Friday - clashes continued around the presidential palace, headquarters of the state broadcaster and a military base in Khartoum, residents said. The battles sent thick columns of black smoke billowing over the city skyline.<\/p>\n<p>But in other areas, residents reported signs that the cease-fire had taken hold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not hearing the bombs as we did before, so we&#039;re hoping that this means they will go back to a political process,\u201d said Osman Mirgany, a columnist and editor of the daily al-Tayar, who assessed it was safe enough on Friday to return home to Khartoum after seeking refuge in a far-flung village.<\/p>\n<p>But Khartoum residents are forced to live side by side with armed fighters. Many RSF militants have moved into civilian homes and taken over stores and hospitals in the capital. The paramilitary group even transformed Mirgany&#039;s newsroom into a makeshift base, he said. Residents also must cope without sufficient electricity and running water, among other basic supplies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past 14 days we&#039;ve suffered from a lack of everything,\u201d Mirgany said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1682800663,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1682831085,"firstPublishedAt":1682831087,"lastPublishedAt":1682836340,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/94\/66\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b3b6e387-be4a-5ce1-a8f6-86861cf0ee63-7569466.jpg","altText":"People line up at a gasoline station in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 29 as gunfire and heavy artillery fire continued despite the extension of a cease-fire.","caption":"People line up at a gasoline station in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 29 as gunfire and heavy artillery fire continued despite the extension of a cease-fire.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Marwan Ali\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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Alle Rechte vorbehalten","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/94\/50\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e1e56deb-8b5c-55ac-90be-2bc1bb83e602-7569450.jpg","altText":"People line up at a gasoline station in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 29 as gunfire and heavy artillery fire continued despite the extension of a cease-fire.","caption":"People line up at a gasoline station in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 29 as gunfire and heavy artillery fire continued despite the extension of a cease-fire.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Marwan Ali\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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including African and Arab nations, the United Nations and the United States - were intensifying their pressure on the rival generals to enter talks on resolving the crisis. \n\nSo far, however, they have managed to achieve only a series of fragile temporary cease-fires that failed to stop clashes but created enough of a lull for tens of thousands of Sudanese to flee to safer areas and for foreign nations to evacuate thousands of their citizens by land, air and sea. \n\n\nIn a sign of the persistent chaos, Turkey said one of its evacuation planes was hit by gunfire outside Khartoum with no casualties on Friday, hours after both sides accepted a 72-hour truce extension. \n\nThe UK said it would end its evacuation flights on Saturday evening after numbers of British citizens seeking an airlift began to decline. After a slow start that attracted criticism, Britain has run regular military flights from an airfield near Khartoum to Cyprus. As of Friday evening, it had airlifted 1,573 people, including nationals of several European countries. \n\n\u201cYou have another 24 hours if you are eligible to make your way to the airport and we will get you on a plane,\" Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said. \n\nFierce clashes with frequent explosions and gunfire continued Friday in Khartoum\u2019s upscale neighbourhood of Kafouri, where the military's warplanes bombed its rivals, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, residents said. Clashes were also reported around the military\u2019s headquarters, the Republican Palace and the area close to the Khartoum international airport. All these areas have been flashpoints since the war erupted on 15 April. Explosions also rang out across the river in Omdurman. \n\nDoctors in the Sudanese capital said the RSF has been abducting medical personnel to treat its wounded fighters - a sign the paramilitary was struggling to get medical support. \n\nThe Turkish Defense Ministry said \u201clight weapons were fired\u201d at a C-130 aircraft heading to Wadi Sayidna airbase on Khartoum's northern outskirts to evacuate Turkish civilians. The plane landed safely, the ministry said in a tweet, and no personnel were injured. \n\nThe Sudanese military blamed the RSF, which denied firing on the plane. \n\nOver the past 14 days of pummeling each other, the military led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan and the RSF led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, have each failed to deal a decisive blow to the other in their struggle for control of Africa's third-largest nation. \n\nStill, world powers have struggled to get them to adhere to announced cease-fires. A bloc of East African nations has put forward an initiative for the two sides to hold talks, and a gamut of mediators are promoting the plan, including the African Union, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and the United Nations. \n\nBurhan on Friday ruled out negotiations with Dagalo, accusing him of orchestrating a rebellion against the state, a day after the military expressed openness to the talks under the initiative. Dagalo \u201cwants to rule Sudan, seize its resources and magnify his wealth,\u201d Burhan said in an interview with US-funded Alhurra TV, denying that he wants power for himself. \n\nBoth Burhan and Dagalo have been involved in crushing pro-democracy activists and together they pushed out civilians from an interim government in a coup in 2021. The former allies fell out in recent months in disputes over an internationally brokered deal meant to pave the way back to a civilian government, including over the issue of incorporating the RSF into the military. \n\nThe rivals' battles in the streets with artillery barrages, airstrikes and gunfire have wreaked misery on millions of Sudanese caught between them. Many have left Khartoum to the northern borders with Egypt, or to the city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea. \n\nAround 40,000 South Sudanese, Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees who had been living in the capital have fled Khartoum since fighting erupted, the UN\u2019s refugee agency said Friday. Many are now sheltering in refugee camps in White Nile, al-Qadarif and Kassala provinces, said UNHCR spokesman Fathi Kasina. Sudan hosts over 1.3 million refugees, including more than 800,000 from South Sudan, according to UN figures. \n\nThose who remain in Khartoum have been living in rapidly deteriorating conditions, mostly trapped inside their homes for days. Food, water and other services have become scarce, and electricity is cut off across much of Khartoum and other cities. Fighters roam the streets in the capital and other cities, looting and destroying homes, shops, businesses and open-air markets. \n\nAt least 512 people, including civilians and combatants, have been killed since 15 April, with another 4,200 wounded, according to the Sudanese Health Ministry. The Sudan Doctors\u2019 Syndicate, which tracks civilian casualties, has recorded at least 387 civilians killed and 1,928 wounded. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>After two weeks of fighting that has turned Khartoum into a war zone and thrown Sudan into turmoil, a wide-ranging group of international mediators - including African and Arab nations, the United Nations and the United States - were intensifying their pressure on the rival generals to enter talks on resolving the crisis. <\/p>\n<p>So far, however, they have managed to achieve only a series of fragile temporary cease-fires that failed to stop clashes but created enough of a lull for tens of thousands of Sudanese to flee to safer areas and for foreign nations to evacuate thousands of their citizens by land, air and sea. <\/p>\n<p>In a sign of the persistent chaos, Turkey said one of its evacuation planes was hit by gunfire outside Khartoum with no casualties on Friday, hours after both sides accepted a 72-hour truce extension.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7565922\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//28//eu-citizens-continue-to-be-brought-to-safety-amid-ongoing-unrest-in-sudan/">EU citizens continue to be brought to safety amid ongoing unrest in Sudan<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The UK said it would end its evacuation flights on Saturday evening after numbers of British citizens seeking an airlift began to decline. After a slow start that attracted criticism, Britain has run regular military flights from an airfield near Khartoum to Cyprus. As of Friday evening, it had airlifted 1,573 people, including nationals of several European countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have another 24 hours if you are eligible to make your way to the airport and we will get you on a plane,\" Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said.<\/p>\n<p>Fierce clashes with frequent explosions and gunfire continued Friday in Khartoum\u2019s upscale neighbourhood of Kafouri, where the military&#039;s warplanes bombed its rivals, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, residents said. Clashes were also reported around the military\u2019s headquarters, the Republican Palace and the area close to the Khartoum international airport. All these areas have been flashpoints since the war erupted on 15 April. Explosions also rang out across the river in Omdurman.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors in the Sudanese capital said the RSF has been abducting medical personnel to treat its wounded fighters - a sign the paramilitary was struggling to get medical support.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//56//83//24//808x539_cmsv2_301396be-b3f7-5e5c-890c-3f4a209ff60e-7568324.jpg/" alt=\"Donaig Le Du\/ Notice: UNICEF photographs are copyrighted and may not be reproduced in any medium without written permission from authorized\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/83\/24\/384x256_cmsv2_301396be-b3f7-5e5c-890c-3f4a209ff60e-7568324.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/83\/24\/640x427_cmsv2_301396be-b3f7-5e5c-890c-3f4a209ff60e-7568324.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/83\/24\/750x500_cmsv2_301396be-b3f7-5e5c-890c-3f4a209ff60e-7568324.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/83\/24\/828x552_cmsv2_301396be-b3f7-5e5c-890c-3f4a209ff60e-7568324.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/83\/24\/1080x720_cmsv2_301396be-b3f7-5e5c-890c-3f4a209ff60e-7568324.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/83\/24\/1200x800_cmsv2_301396be-b3f7-5e5c-890c-3f4a209ff60e-7568324.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/83\/24\/1920x1281_cmsv2_301396be-b3f7-5e5c-890c-3f4a209ff60e-7568324.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">In this photo provided by UNICEF, a group of refugees rests under the shade of a tree to protect themselves from the sun and heat after crossing into the village of Koufroun.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Donaig Le Du\/ Notice: UNICEF photographs are copyrighted and may not be reproduced in any medium without written permission from authorized<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Turkish Defense Ministry said \u201clight weapons were fired\u201d at a C-130 aircraft heading to Wadi Sayidna airbase on Khartoum&#039;s northern outskirts to evacuate Turkish civilians. The plane landed safely, the ministry said in a tweet, and no personnel were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The Sudanese military blamed the RSF, which denied firing on the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 14 days of pummeling each other, the military led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan and the RSF led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, have each failed to deal a decisive blow to the other in their struggle for control of Africa&#039;s third-largest nation.<\/p>\n<p>Still, world powers have struggled to get them to adhere to announced cease-fires. A bloc of East African nations has put forward an initiative for the two sides to hold talks, and a gamut of mediators are promoting the plan, including the African Union, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and the United Nations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7565346,7555196\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//28//sudans-warring-factions-agree-to-extend-truce-but-fighting-goes-on/">Sudan's warring factions agree to extend truce but fighting goes on<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//27//why-is-russias-wagner-group-in-sudan-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-the-war-in-ukraine/">Why is Russia's Wagner Group in Sudan, and what does it have to do with the war in Ukraine? <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Burhan on Friday ruled out negotiations with Dagalo, accusing him of orchestrating a rebellion against the state, a day after the military expressed openness to the talks under the initiative. Dagalo \u201cwants to rule Sudan, seize its resources and magnify his wealth,\u201d Burhan said in an interview with US-funded Alhurra TV, denying that he wants power for himself.<\/p>\n<p>Both Burhan and Dagalo have been involved in crushing pro-democracy activists and together they pushed out civilians from an interim government in a coup in 2021. The former allies fell out in recent months in disputes over an internationally brokered deal meant to pave the way back to a civilian government, including over the issue of incorporating the RSF into the military.<\/p>\n<p>The rivals&#039; battles in the streets with artillery barrages, airstrikes and gunfire have wreaked misery on millions of Sudanese caught between them. Many have left Khartoum to the northern borders with Egypt, or to the city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Around 40,000 South Sudanese, Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees who had been living in the capital have fled Khartoum since fighting erupted, the UN\u2019s refugee agency said Friday. Many are now sheltering in refugee camps in White Nile, al-Qadarif and Kassala provinces, said UNHCR spokesman Fathi Kasina. Sudan hosts over 1.3 million refugees, including more than 800,000 from South Sudan, according to UN figures.<\/p>\n<p>Those who remain in Khartoum have been living in rapidly deteriorating conditions, mostly trapped inside their homes for days. Food, water and other services have become scarce, and electricity is cut off across much of Khartoum and other cities. Fighters roam the streets in the capital and other cities, looting and destroying homes, shops, businesses and open-air markets.<\/p>\n<p>At least 512 people, including civilians and combatants, have been killed since 15 April, with another 4,200 wounded, according to the Sudanese Health Ministry. 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Thousands more have been wounded. \n\nThe doctors' union in the country said at least eight civilians had been killed in Khartoum alone on Wednesday despite the truce. \n\nMore than two-thirds of hospitals in the country were out of service, the union said on Thursday, including 14 that had been struck during the fighting. \n\nThe conflict has also resulted in mass evacuations of foreign residents as well as Sudanese civilians. International organisations say the number of displaced people is likely to rise to hundreds of thousands. \n\nBeyond the capital, fighting has flared in the provinces, particularly in the war-torn western region of Darfur. \n\nClashes between the army and the RSF raged for a second day in the West Darfur capital Geneina, witnesses said, adding that civilians were seen fleeing to the nearby border with Chad. \n\nOn Wednesday, the United Nations humanitarian agency reported killings, looting and arson in Geneina. \n\n\"An estimated 50,000 acutely malnourished children have had nutrition support disrupted due to the fighting,\" it added in a statement. \n\nThe heavy fighting has trapped many civilians in their homes, where they have endured severe shortages of food, water and electricity. \n\nThe UN has warned that as many as 270,000 people could flee into Sudan's poorer neighbours South Sudan and Chad. \n\nOther Sudanese have sought refuge in Egypt to the north and Ethiopia to the east, but both entail long and potentially dangerous journeys overland. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Sudan&#039;s warring factions have agreed to extend a three-day ceasefire for another 72 hours although sporadic heavy fighting continued in the capital Khartoum on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement came after intense talks with representatives from the\u00a0US, UK and UN.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the confrontation between the army and Rapid Support Forces broke out on April 15, over 500 people have been killed, mainly by air strikes and artillery. Thousands more have been wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors&#039; union in the country said at least eight civilians had been killed in Khartoum alone on Wednesday despite the truce.<\/p>\n<p>More than two-thirds of hospitals in the country were out of service, the union said on Thursday, including 14 that had been struck during the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has also resulted in mass evacuations of foreign residents as well as Sudanese civilians. 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have endured severe shortages of food, water and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The UN has warned that as many as 270,000 people could flee into Sudan&#039;s poorer neighbours South Sudan and Chad.<\/p>\n<p>Other Sudanese have sought refuge in Egypt to the north and Ethiopia to the east, but both entail long and potentially dangerous journeys overland.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1682643334,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1682664706,"firstPublishedAt":1682664710,"lastPublishedAt":1682677913,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/53\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2e110dc6-4319-58e4-a83b-ee8b9b401d9a-7565348.jpg","altText":"Sporadic fighting goes on despite the agreed truce","caption":"Sporadic fighting goes on despite the agreed 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CUBE - SUDAN DISINFORMATION","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Sudan crisis: Don't fall for these misleading images and claims on social media","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Sudan crisis: Don't fall for these misleading images and claims ","titleListing2":"#TheCube: Euronews took a closer look at some of the most viral images falsely claiming to show the recent fighting in Sudan ","leadin":"A hotel that's been bombed and a bridge on fire - but these viral images on social media are not what they seem to be.","summary":"A hotel that's been bombed and a bridge on fire - but these viral images on social media are not what they seem to be.","keySentence":"","url":"sudan-crisis-dont-fall-for-these-misleading-images-and-claims-on-social-media","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/04\/27\/sudan-crisis-dont-fall-for-these-misleading-images-and-claims-on-social-media","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"As deadly clashes erupt in Sudan and the scramble to evacuate civilians continues, unrelated or misleading images have been circulating on social media creating panic and confusion. \n\nTwo pictures in particular have been shared a lot on Twitter and have been attributed to the current fighting in Sudan.\u00a0 \n\nThe first one shows a burning bridge while the second one a building that has been attacked and is engulfed in flames.\u00a0 \n\nAlthough there has been heavy fighting and hundreds of casualties \u2013 none of these two pictures are related to the current situation in Sudan, according to AFP .\u00a0\u00a0 \n\nViolence erupted on 15 April after a weeks-long power struggle between two generals who seized power in a coup back in 2021.\u00a0 \n\nThe army, under military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has clashed with the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Burhan's own deputy-turned-rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. \n\nBoth men disagreed over the planned integration of the paramilitary group RSF into Sudan's regular army.\u00a0 \n\nIt was a key condition for a final deal aimed at resuming the country\u2019s democratic transition. \n\nFor the first image of the burning bridge, a quick reverse image search leads us to find out it's a photo taken by AFP.\u00a0 \n\nIt dates back to October 2022 and shows the aftermath of an explosion which caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia.\u00a0 \n\nWhen it comes to the second photo of the burning building, AFP identified it as the Corinthia Hotel also called the Burj al-Fateh tower in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.\u00a0 \n\nA reverse image search found a similar image of the hotel -- but with no flames or smoke -- published in a tweet in 2013. \n\nAFP analysis found that the photo posted on Twitter had been photoshopped to add smoke and flames.\u00a0A spokesperson for the hotel confirmed the photo had been digitally altered.\u00a0 \n\nTo add to the confusion, a few days ago,\u00a0a fake Twitter account subscribed to Twitter Blue verification claiming to represent the paramilitary group RSF has falsely claimed its leader has died in the fighting. \n\nMany Twitter users took the post\u2019s false announcement at face value. Some have criticised Elon Musk\u2019s new policies on the platform which they claim are confusing, and spreading dangerous misinformation. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>As deadly clashes erupt in Sudan and the scramble to evacuate civilians continues, unrelated or misleading images have been circulating on social media creating panic and confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Two pictures in particular have been shared a lot on Twitter and have been attributed to the current fighting in Sudan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first one shows a burning bridge while the second one a building that has been attacked and is engulfed in flames.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although there has been heavy fighting and hundreds of casualties \u2013 none of these two pictures are related to the current situation in Sudan, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////factcheck.afp.com//doc.afp.com.33DL4Z3/">according to AFP<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1647576464164896768\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Violence erupted on 15 April after a weeks-long power struggle between two generals who seized power in a coup back in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The army, under military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has clashed with the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Burhan&#039;s own deputy-turned-rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.<\/p>\n<p>Both men disagreed over the planned integration of the paramilitary group RSF into Sudan&#039;s regular army.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a key condition for a final deal aimed at resuming the country\u2019s democratic transition.<\/p>\n<p>For the first image of the burning bridge, a quick reverse image search leads us to find out it&#039;s a photo taken by AFP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It dates back to October 2022 and shows <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.aljazeera.com//news//2022//10//8//fuel-tank-ablaze-at-bridge-linking-russia-to-crimea-reports/">the aftermath of an explosion<\/strong><\/a> which caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the second photo of the burning building, AFP identified it as the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.google.com//maps//place//Corinthia+Hotel//@15.6065249,32.5136518,15z//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb1ecfdd0d9fde7ae?sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjUyqim08f-AhXaTKQEHTB6A50Q_BJ6BQiPARAI\%22>Corinthia Hotel<\/strong><\/a> also called the Burj al-Fateh tower in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"371959854950137856\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A reverse image search found a similar image of the hotel -- but with no flames or smoke -- published in a tweet in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>AFP analysis found that the photo posted on Twitter had been photoshopped to add smoke and flames.\u00a0A spokesperson for the hotel confirmed the photo had been digitally altered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To add to the confusion, a few days ago,\u00a0a fake Twitter account subscribed to Twitter Blue verification claiming to represent the paramilitary group RSF has falsely claimed its leader has died in the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Many Twitter users took the post\u2019s false announcement at face value. 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