ALBAWABA - Today Sudanese people are marking one year of suffering, displacement and lack of ability to access basic life materials.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, about 37% of the population at crisis level or above is in hunger. Meanwhile, Save the Children warned that at least 230,000 children, pregnant women and newborn mothers could die of malnutrition if the war continues.
Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. (Photo by AFP)
Warring parties and places of fighting:
On April 15, 2023, the war in Sudan erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.
The Spark of war started in Khartoum, especially from the heart of the Presidential Palace, Khartoum Airport and General Command of the Sudanese Army buildings.
The war started in Khartoum and spread to other cities including Al Jazirah and Darfur Region.
Casualties:
The official number of deaths in Sudan was placed on at least 14,000 in the year of the war, but the real number is believed to be higher.
26,000 others were reported injured.
An elderly man waits to refill his donkey-drawn water tank during a water crisis in Port Sudan in the Red Sea State of war-torn Sudan on April 9, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Displacement:
The Sudan war forced 10.7 million people to leave their homes, 9 million of them were internally displaced.
Meanwhile, 1.7 million left Sudan into neighbouring countries such as Chad, South Sudan, Egypt, and Libya.
Sudan: rape and sexual violence:
The UN human rights office said dozens of people, including children, have been victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence in the ongoing conflict in Sudan, attacks which could be assimilated into war crimes.
