UN warns: Sudan Armed Conflict shouldn’t Mount to “Humanitarian Calamity.”
Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed
The conflict in Sudan, which has left thousands dead and seven million people displaced over seven months, is spreading to new regions of the nation, the UN said Thursday, warning of a mounting “humanitarian calamity.”
The deadly unrest includes outbreaks of interethnic violence and attacks against women, according to the global body.
The United Nations assistant secretary-general for Africa, Ghanaian diplomat Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, expressed alarm over the deteriorating crisis in a Security Council meeting, as she told members: “Sudan is facing a convergence of a worsening humanitarian calamity and a catastrophic human rights crisis.”
War erupted in Sudan on April 15, pitting army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against his former deputy, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, in fighting that has left more than 9,000 people dead, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. The number is widely considered an underestimate.
“Hostilities have spilled over to new areas, such as Gezira, White Nile and West Kordofan states, placing even more civilians at risk as well as humanitarian operations,” Pobee said.
