Hundreds of people have been killed in nearly two weeks of conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force. Read more at straitstimes.com.
France said on Thursday it had evacuated more people from Sudan, including Britons, Americans, Canadians, Ethiopians, Dutch, Italians and Swedes. Britain said it might not be able to continue evacuating nationals when the ceasefire ends, and they should try to reach British flights out of Sudan immediately.
At International University of Africa in Khartoum, where thousands of students are waiting to leave, food is running out, there is no water for toilets and showers, and the power is out, said Nigerian law student Umar Yusuf Yaru, 24. “Even as we sit here, almost everywhere you can hear gunshots. We are not safe here,” Mr Yaru said, via Zoom, as some female students could be heard crying in the background.The conflict has limited food distribution in the vast nation, Africa’s third largest, where a third of the 46 million people were already reliant on humanitarian aid.
Tension had been building for months between Sudan’s army and the RSF, which together toppled a civilian government in an October 2021 coup, two years after a popular uprising toppled long-ruling Islamist autocrat Omar al-Bashir. REUTERS
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