'The parties to the conflict must immediately stop using explosive weapons with wide area effects in the vicinity of concentrations of civilians,' said TigereChagutah, Amnesty International's regional director for East and Southern Africa.
As an armed conflict between Sudan's military and a paramilitary group intensifies in the capital Khartoum and surrounding areas, Amnesty International on Monday implored the warring factions to protect civilians and ensure access to humanitarian aid.
;𠇌ivilians in Sudan must be protected and all parties to the conflict must ensure access for humanitarian relief to civilians in need.;𠇜ombat broke out this past weekend following weeks of tensions between SAF commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chair of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, or"Hemedti," the council's deputy chair.
A third of Sudan's population—roughly 15 million people—suffer from hunger and rely on humanitarian assistance. However, the U.N.'s World Food Program was forced tooperations in the country after three aid workers were killed and two others injured in Darfur on Saturday. In addition, the International Rescue Committee and Save the Children have both suspended most operations in the country.
"Civilians are caught in the middle of this conflict and are suffering," said Chagutah."The parties to the conflict must immediately stop using explosive weapons with wide area effects in the vicinity of concentrations of civilians." The former allies joined forces to take control of Sudan in October 2021, two years after a 2019 military coup that came on the heels of a popular uprising ousted Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled Africa's third-largest country since leading the 1989 overthrow of a democratically elected government.
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