In Sudan, the second attempt at a ceasefire has also failed. Eyewitnesses reported ongoing fighting in the capital Khartoum into the night, although both parties to the conflict had agreed to a 24-hour “comprehensive ceasefire” from 6 p.m. yesterday. Thousands of people have fled the city as fighting has continued since the weekend.
“It’s impossible to live in Khartoum if this war doesn’t stop,” said 33-year-old Alawaya al-Tajeb as she left the city of five million. She tried to spare her children the sight of the corpses on the streets – but her little ones are already traumatized.
In the north-east African country, units of the army and the paramilitary RSF militia have been fighting bitterly since Saturday. An agreement to integrate the RSF into the army had previously failed.
No electricity and water
For the civilians stuck in their apartments in Khartoum, the situation is becoming increasingly hopeless: food supplies are dwindling, the electricity is out and there is no drinking water. As early as Tuesday, the prospect of an evacuation had been dashed after a humanitarian ceasefire was broken just minutes after it went into effect.
The US embassy, in a statement signed by 14 other diplomatic missions in Sudan, said the parties to the conflict must “refrain from unlawfully evicting people from their homes.” The fighting ruthlessly endangered the Sudanese people, diplomats and humanitarian workers.
reports of sexual violence
The UN received reports of sexual violence against humanitarian workers and diplomats were attacked. According to “Spiegel”, the Bundeswehr had to cancel an initial evacuation operation because of the ongoing fighting in Khartoum.
According to the Sudanese army, the impoverished country’s central bank was looted. “Large sums of money” were stolen by the RSF militia, the army said. The militia accused the soldiers of “attacking family homes.”
