After nearly three months of war between Sudan’s rival generals, the air strike is the latest incident to provoke outrage. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WAD MADANI - Conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a “full-scale civil war” that could destabilise the entire region, the United Nations warned Sunday, after an air strike on a residential area killed around two dozen civilians.
A video posted by the health ministry on Facebook showed apparently dismembered bodies lying partly covered on the ground after the air strike. Several women were among the victims. Witnesses also reported more air strikes Sunday near the presidential palace in Khartoum and in Omdurman, as well as machine gun clashes and artillery fire in the city’s south.
Meanwhile civilians began digging graves for those killed in the air Saturday’s air strike, witnesses said. Concentrated in Darfur and the capital Khartoum, fighting has also been reported in Blue Nile state near Ethiopia, which also has a history of unrest, as well as in South Kordofan state. On Monday leaders of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan – IGAD members handling the Sudan file – are to meet in Addis Ababa.
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