In a communiqué released on Friday, the Sudanese Army denied statements by the RSF about an alleged repositioning of their forces and added that the paramilitary troops abandoned their positions and left dead and weapons behind.
Meanwhile, fighting continues in other Sudanese regions such as Al Fasher, North Darfur, where more than 70 children have been killed in recent weeks.
The representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) for Sudan, Sheldon Yett, denounced that about 825 children are in increasing danger in Al Fasher and its surroundings.
Yett added that nearly 900,000 people remain in Al Fasher, 750,000 of them in Zamzam camp, trapped in the middle of the conflict, where they face an alarming shortage of water, food and medicine.
Since mid-April 2023, this African nation has been plunged into an internal war, after contradictions over power issues flared up between Army chief Abdel Fatah al-Burhan and the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
As a result of the conflict, more than 24,000 people have been killed, while more than 14 million Sudanese are being displaced from their homes, in what experts consider to be the world’s largest displacement crisis.
The fighting has also destroyed countless livelihoods, plunging the country into a complex spiral of hunger and death.
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