According to UN emergency relief chief Martin Griffiths, a “strike” damaged the roof of the intensive care unit at Southern Hospital in the town of El Fasher – the only hospital still operating. dynamic in North Darfur state – place Medical supplies are running out at dangerous levels.
About 800,000 people live in and around El Fryer Town, where “Countless lives are at stake. Sudan is at a tipping point”, Mr. Griffiths speak in a text message on X late Sunday.
Important cities are under threat
In an update on the war situation, the United Nations aid coordination office (OCHA) reported that dozens of civilians were killed in renewed fierce fighting last Friday between Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soldiers in and around the city – the last North Darfur is not yet under RSF control, it has been reported.
“Clashes, including air strikes and use of heavy weapons, which began mid-morning east of El Fryer Township and continued until 6:30 p.m.,” OCHA said. “Clashes extended to the town centre, the outskirts of the main market and surrounding areas, leaving civilians dead and injured..”
Before the latest bloodshed, humanitarians warned that months of escalating violence around El Fasher Town were causing “persistent” aid access obstacles, hindering the flow of aid and Basic goods are maintained. “push people to the brink of famine”.
Nearly 25 million people need help
In Darfur alone, there are currently about nine million people in need of humanitarian assistance, but A staggering 24.8 million people across Sudan – almost half of all people in the country – now need help from the United Nations and aid partners.
The latest assessment of hunger levels across Sudan since late March was already alarming, even before this latest escalation.
It revealed that 17.7 million people – more than a third of the country’s population – face acute food insecurity (IPC3) or worse, with level three being “Crisis” and acute food insecurity. Level five is “Famine”.
Of these, 4.9 million people are “on the brink of famine”, experts at the globally respected Integrated Food Security Staging initiative warn. “Nearly nine out of 10 people in IPC4 live in conflict-affected areas in Darfur, Kordofan, Khartoum and Jazirah. With the start of the lean season from April onwards, food insecurity is expected to worsen further.” Their reviews noted.
Millions of lives were turned upside down
According to the United Nations migration agency, IOMSome 570,000 people have been displaced in North Darfur state in the past 13 months and 6.7 million are internally displaced, while 1.8 million have fled across the Sudanese border, the United Nations refugee agency (UN refugee agency) said.UNHCR) data shows.
In response to reports of fresh clashes on Sunday in and around El Fryer Town, OCHA said a large number of people had moved from the east and northwest to the south.
The press quoted the medical director of El Fryer Town hospital as describing that patients were being treated in any available space in the facility, including on balconies. Reiterating concerns about damage to medical equipment and supplies, the director pointed out that vital supply lines to the rest of Sudan had been cut off by RSF.
