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Our Man Bashir Gift - Residents of Sudan's besieged capital Khartoum said on Wednesday they faced increasing hunger, disease and continued airstrikes despite a declared ceasefire between the country's two most powerful generals, who began fighting 12 days ago. Maysoon Abdallah Abdallmuttalib, who is one of the leaders of the volunteer crisis response network in the city, said the airstrikes on Wednesday killed at least two people and wounded many others, adding to pressure on an already collapsed health system.
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On Wednesday afternoon, Abdallmuttalib said there were military planes overhead and the bombardment was continuing. During the brief pause, she said her network has mostly received requests for food, medicine and evacuation assistance as conditions for those remaining in the city continue to worsen. "There has been no ceasefire in this ceasefire," said Gasim Amin Oshi, a 29-year-old engineer who, like Abdallmuttalib, is a member of Sudan's local "resistance committees" that have been active since the pro-democracy revolution in 2019. On Wednesday afternoon, he said he heard
the sound of circling army helicopters, which meant an imminent attack. He said there were at least two bombings on Tuesday, including one that resulted in multiple injuries at al-Romi Hospital in the twin city of Omdurman, and at least one more on Wednesday. He said residents, many of whom are too afraid to leave their homes, face dangerous shortages of food, water and medicine.
Oshi, who was busy organizing drug deliveries on Wednesday, said few had much faith in the ceasefire announced by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday. "To be honest, nobody believed them," he said, referring to General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the army chief and de facto head of state, and his rival, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagal of the paramilitary Rapid Support Force, who plunged their country into war.
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Because we have many years of experience with them. They are not keeping their word." Burhan gave his "initial approval" to a proposal by officials in Djibouti, Kenya and South Sudan to extend the current ceasefire for 72 hours and to hold talks with an RSF delegation in Juba, the Sudanese military said.
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in a Facebook post late Wednesday. . Maryam Elfaki from north Khartoum, also active in Sudan's "resistance committees", said an end to the violence was in sight. The RSF settled in neighborhoods throughout Khartoum and placed civilians there. danger when the military conducts airstrikes. "They're giving civilians no choice but to evacuate," she said. "If one side wins, it's a loss for everybody."
Fourth truce falters in Khartoum as people fight for fleeing Sudan Elfaki, who fled her home in Khartoum on the third day of fighting to be with her extended family, said even the suburbs are now becoming more dangerous. On Wednesday, she began packing her bags for her family, joining many who have decided there is no choice but to travel hundreds of kilometers to the Egyptian border, where they face hour-long queues in the sweltering heat.
Some families were separated because men of military age are not allowed to leave. International evacuations have picked up speed, with Great Britain and India among the many countries organizing departures. About 700 Indians arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by an Indian Navy ship and two planes, officials in New Delhi said on Wednesday.
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Britain has evacuated around 300 citizens since airlifts from Khartoum began on Tuesday, according to a government spokesman. Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand said Canada would deploy 250 troops to help coordinate the evacuation of its citizens in Sudan. No evacuations are planned for the roughly 16,000 US citizens estimated to be in the country when the fighting began, but White House national security spokesman John Kirby, who confirmed on Wednesday that another American had died in the country, said travel had been facilitated
for those who arrived in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan - a 500-mile drive from the capital. He insisted that the truce remained in force and was largely in effect, with exceptions. The U.S. military is monitoring routes to Port Sudan using drones, U.S. officials said.
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They are also monitoring the worsening humanitarian situation in Sudan, including shortages of food, water and medicine, Kirby said. "We know a lot of hospitals are closing," he said. The extent of Sudan's descent into lawlessness has been underscored by confusion in recent days over the whereabouts of its former military leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was ousted from his 30-year rule in 2019 and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged atrocities.
in Darfur. As Sudan's capital burns, the Darfur region negotiates a fragile ceasefire. Sudan's military issued a statement Wednesday that Bashir remains under judicial police guard at Alia Hospital, where the military said he was transferred before the fighting broke out, but he did not.
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provide photographic evidence. Questions about Bashir's whereabouts arose after Ahmed Haroun, a former minister who was detained with him in Kober prison and also wanted for war crimes, announced on Tuesday that he had left the prison along with other former officials. "In light of the raging fighting and growing dangers around us, we have decided to take responsibility for our own protection," Haroun said.
Sudan's interior ministry said the prisoners were freed by the RSF when it attacked Kober and other prisons, Reuters reported. The RSF, in turn, claimed that the army freed Haroun as part of a conspiracy. Questions over the whereabouts of Bashir and other former regime figures came as top UN officials in the Horn of Africa said there was no clear sign any of the heavily armed groups were ready to negotiate, and repeated cease-fires had failed to halt fighting.
killing more than 450 and injuring about 3700. What is worth fighting in Sudan and what is at stake? Volker Perthes, the UN secretary-general's envoy to Sudan, said on Tuesday that both sides believed they could achieve a military victory over the other, which he called a "miscalculation".
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Sudan could become increasingly fragmented, which would have a devastating impact on the region," he told the UN Security Council via video link. Residential areas, hospitals and mosques were attacked and there were reports of shops and cars being looted. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the fire could spark a wider regional conflict, "causing enormous suffering for years and retarding development for decades".
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The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that only 16 percent of the country's health facilities were functioning. There are also new public health concerns, with the WHO warning on Tuesday of a "high risk of biological hazards" after one of the armed factions seized a laboratory in Khartoum containing isolates of measles, polio and cholera.
The WHO did not specify which group now controls the lab, but said all the technicians had been fired. The takeover is "extremely, extremely dangerous," said Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO representative in Sudan. Experts warned against the accidental release or deliberate misuse of pathogens and called for the laboratory to be placed under the administration of the WHO or the Red Cross.
Both sides are using munitions that can destroy protective devices that hold these dangerous microbes," said Srinath Reddy, an infectious disease expert in Delhi. "There could also be potential abuse as you could use it for biological warfare by using it on those you think are your enemies or even sell them to bad actors."
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