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The coup attempt in Sudan has killed 61 people and fighting has spread across the country. This is a rivalry between the Sudanese army general and the RSF general. Photo/via BBC
KHARTOUM – Coup attempt on Sudan by the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed 61 people. Now fighting between the group and the government military continues to spread across the country.
The Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate group reported 61 civilians killed and hundreds injured since the coup attempt was launched.
The UN World Food Program suspended its operations in Sudan last weekend after three aid workers were killed in fierce clashes between the RSF and the government military.
Volker Perthes, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sudan, reiterated on Sunday that international aid workers were “not the target”, condemning the killing of three World Food Program employees in Kabkabiya, North Darfur. Two other staff workers were seriously injured.
“I am also deeply shocked by the reports of projectiles hitting the UN and other humanitarian buildings, as well as reports of looting of UN and other humanitarian buildings in several locations in Darfur,” Perthes said.
“These repeated acts of violence are disrupting the delivery of life-saving assistance and must end,” he said, as quoted by AP, Monday (17/4/2023).
Fighting broke out across Sudan on Saturday after months of escalating tensions between the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the RSF led by General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.
The two generals are former allies who orchestrated a military coup in 2021 that toppled a Western-backed government.
The US Embassy in Sudan on Saturday sent a notice for its staff in Khartoum to seek shelter. The capital city of Sudan is home to more than five million people.
