Khartoum (EFE) Tuesday.
According to the media and witnesses who have spoken with EFE, this morning there have been combats and shootings again, especially in the vicinity of the General Command of the Armed Forces and the Presidential Palace, in the center of the capital.
Columns of dense smoke have also risen since the early hours of the day in the Khartoum International Airport area, which military sources attributed to a fire caused by a FAR attack against the aircraft fuel stores at the airfield.
In addition, eyewitnesses have assured EFE that Army planes have bombed a FAR base in the Kafuri neighborhood in the north of Khartoum today.
mutual accusations
Both the army and the FAR have been accused of breaching the truce, the first in 24 hours since fighting began on Saturday, as well as attacking civilian facilities, including medical centers and markets in the capital and other regions of Sudan.
The Army spokesman, Colonel Nabil Abdullah, once again accused the “rebel forces” of the FAR of breaking the truce, and of “moving in small groups without leadership or plan” as well as “carrying out looting operations in some neighborhoods of the capital and in the city of Merowe”, in the north of the country and on the border with Egypt.
According to the military command “for the fifth consecutive day these rebel groups attacked the General Command (…) but they have been defeated and have suffered significant casualties, in addition to the destruction of several combat vehicles.”
The spokesman has indicated that “it has been easy to bomb the concentrations of these rebel forces in the center of Khartoum and eliminate the rebellion in hours” and has reiterated the call on the FAR troops to surrender and surrender to the Armed Forces.
For its part, the FAR affirm that the Army attacked our troops “with heavy weapons from the first hours of the truce, while the planes continued to attack civilian complexes, including hospitals,” as well as “water and electricity supply stations.”
Sudanese doctors estimate 174 civilian deaths since Saturday
The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors reported today that since the beginning of the armed conflict, last Saturday, at least 174 civilians have died, a figure lower than the 270 deaths revealed yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO).
However, this organization has specified that “there are a number of injured and dead that are not included in this report since it has not been possible to access hospitals due to the difficulty of movement and the security situation in the country.”
On the other hand, health sources warned about the serious humanitarian situation in the country and alerted that more than half of the hospitals in Khartoum, and in neighboring states, are out of service, while the rest are at risk of closure due to lack of of medical personnel and supplies, due to the fighting.
Also this Wednesday, an armed group has taken by force the facilities of SOS Children’s Villages in Khartoum, according to the NGO, which has managed to evacuate the minors under its care.
In total, 68 children, 11 caregivers and eight staff members have been evacuated “without incident” to a temporary residence in a “safe area” of the Sudanese capital.