Smoke rises during clashes between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Omdurman, Sudan. (Reuters)
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Conflict-torn After an airstrike on a residential neighborhood on Sunday left almost two dozen civilians dead, the UN issued a warning that Sudan was on the verge of a “full-scale civil war” that may destabilize the entire region.
Due to his deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced the air strike in Omdurman on Sunday, which “reportedly killed at least 22 people” and injured numerous others.
According to Haq, Guterres “remains gravely concerned that the ongoing conflict between the armed forces has brought Sudan to the verge of a full-scale civil war, potentially destabilizing the entire region.”
The complete disdain for humanitarian and human rights legislation is perilous and unsettling, he continued.
The attack on Omdurman, the sister city of Khartoum, in the district of Dar Al-Salam, which in Arabic means “House of Peace,” resulted in “22 dead and a large number of wounded among the civilians,” according to the Ministry of Health.
The air strike is the most upsetting episode following nearly three months of conflict between Sudan’s warring generals.
There have been almost 3,000 fatalities in the battle, a surge of sexual assaults has been documented by survivors, and witnesses have described killings that were carried out with an ethnic bias. The UN warned of potential crimes against humanity in the Darfur region because of the widespread looting.
Several ladies were among the dead that appeared to be motionless following the attack in a video that the health ministry uploaded on Facebook. According to the narrator, locals “counted 22 dead.” According to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group battling the regular army, 31 people were killed in the strike.
Paramilitaries have built bases in residential areas since the war started, and they have been charged with ejecting residents from their houses.
According to the International Organization for Migration, about 700,000 individuals have fled to neighboring countries as a result of the conflict in Sudan, which has dislocated nearly three million people.
The RSF and its allies have been held responsible for the majority of the numerous violations, according to the United States, Norway, and Britain, although the UN and African blocs have warned of an “ethnic dimension” to the fighting in Darfur’s western region.
Haq voiced his support for the IGAD and AU’s efforts to resolve the conflict in Sudan.
The heads of the IGAD nations managing the Sudan issue, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan, will meet in Addis Abeba on Monday.
Both the commander of the RSF, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, and the head of the Sudanese army, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, have been invited, but neither has indicated that they will go.
Throughout the war, numerous cease-fires have been declared and disregarded.
Source- BBC News
