Activists and eyewitnesses in the town of El Geneina have confirmed to Sky News Arabia that the security situation in the town and its neighboring villages is worsening with continued fighting, rapes, looting and the burning of more of 20 indoor and outdoor residential areas. the city.
They pointed to the depletion of food stocks for the population amid major difficulties faced by humanitarian organizations in delivering food and medicine to the hungry and sick, amid reports of the deaths of dozens of kidney patients. hospitalized in the city hospital after the lack of drugs and dialysis solutions.
The Sudanese Doctors’ Central Committee said in a statement that the violent attacks on the town’s residents are escalating in light of a dire humanitarian and security situation, with services having completely collapsed. The city, which is inhabited by about one million people, no longer has any of the necessities of life, such as food, water, medicine, electricity and communication networks. Thousands of city residents have become unable to find a safe exit in light of the violent siege imposed on the city by armed groups.
The statement from the Sudanese Doctors Union indicates that a large number of activists, journalists and lawyers residing in the city are directly targeted by armed groups, resulting in the death and injury of many of them .
Observers have described the genocide and the permissiveness of the city of El Geneina as a crime that violates all rights, values ​​and customs. They called on local and international civil and humanitarian institutions to lend a hand to those affected.
These events come amid high security and tribal tensions in many parts of the Darfur region, and in light of central authorities’ concern over the more than 8-week-long war in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
Since October 2021, acts of violence have been repeated more than 10 times in Darfur, killing more than two thousand people, including women and children, and burning down entire villages.
Despite the signing of the Sudanese peace agreement in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, in October 2020; Riots and looting are on the rise in a number of parts of the Darfur region, which has seen the longest war on the African continent and has been going on since 2003, killing 300,000 people and displacing millions.
In addition to the spread of more than two million weapons in the region; The fragmentation and proliferation of armed movements in Darfur raise serious concerns and cast a shadow over the possibility of success of stabilization efforts in areas that have suffered from civil conflict. It is estimated that there are more than 87 armed movements in Sudan, including 84 in the Darfur region alone.
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