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Khartoum islanders ‘under siege’ as Sudan fighting rages

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Last updated: June 7, 2023 11:19 am
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Battles are raging in Sudan’s war-torn capital, witnesses say, as residents of an island in the Nile reported being “under siege” amid desperate shortages.

Eight weeks of fighting have pitted army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo — commonly known as Hemeti — who commands the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

A number of broken ceasefires have offered brief lulls but no respite for residents of Khartoum, where witnesses again on Tuesday reported “the sound of heavy artillery fire” in the capital’s northwest.

Pro-democracy neighbourhood groups known as resistance committees reported “civilians were injured in clashes” in central Khartoum on Tuesday.

Witnesses also said there were “clashes with various types of weapons” in south Khartoum, where “the sound of explosions shook our walls”.

In the city’s north, “dozens of protesters” gathered in the street, witnesses told AFP, with chants of “Burhan is a murderer! Hemeti is a murderer!” ringing out.

Since the fighting began on April 15, more than 1,800 people have been killed, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project.

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The United Nations says that more than 1.5 million people have been displaced, both within the country and across its borders.

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Men walk on a street in Khartoum’s twin city of Umdurman on April 16, 2023.

In the city centre, at the confluence of the White Nile and Blue Nile rivers, the island of Tuti is “under total siege” by RSF forces, resident Mohammed Youssef told AFP.

For over a week, paramilitaries have blocked the only bridge to the island and prevented residents from going by boat to other parts of the capital, “shooting anyone who approaches the river bank”, pro-democracy lawyers said Tuesday.

“We can’t move anyone who’s sick to hospitals off the island,” Youssef said, adding that “if this continues for days, stores will run out of food.”

Emptying store shelves and pharmacy stocks “herald a humanitarian catastrophe”, according to the lawyers, who called on the RSF “to open safe corridors and respect the principles of humanitarian law”.

Both sides have repeatedly committed to abiding by international law, declaring humanitarian truces and accusing the other side of violating them.

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Washington slapped sanctions on the two warring generals last week, blaming both for the “appalling bloodshed” after a US- and Saudi-brokered truce had collapsed and the army pulled out of ceasefire talks altogether.

Mediators have called for the resumption of negotiations in Saudi Arabia, where US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was heading Tuesday for a three-day visit.

Burhan said earlier Tuesday he had received a phone call from Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, laying out preconditions for talks.

 

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