Nearly 300 people have been killed in the past five days,the UN health agency said,but the toll is likely higher because many bodies lie uncollected in the streets.
At least 185 people died and some 1800 were wounded in battles that included an assault on the international airport. Even the EU ambassador “was assaulted in his own residency”.
Sudan’s military has launched air strikes on a paramilitary force’s base in a bid to reassert control over one of Africa’s largest countries.
Rising tensions between rival factions of the armed forces have suddenly spiralled into an all-out battle for control of one of Africa’s biggest countries.
Gunfire could be heard in several parts of Khartoum,and Sudan’s paramilitary claims they had taken control of the presidential palace,the residence of the army chief and Khartoum international airport.
Freedom fighter Aguil Chut Deng,who fled to Toowoomba,is to be buried in South Sudan’s Heroes’ Cemetery at the president’s behest.
About 20 million people will likely be classed as suffering from “emergency” or “crisis” levels of “acute food insecurity,” double 2021’s figure,according to the World Food Programme.
Abdulla Hamdok had only been restored to power in November,after he was kidnapped by his own military in the October coup.
Three protesters were killed and dozens injured — several by live rounds — as security forces opened fire in several locations,a doctors’ union said.
After isolation from the international financing system during the three decades of Bashir’s rule,Sudan had gained access to $2.6 billion in financing.
Sudanese security forces detained three prominent pro-democracy figures,according to their relatives and other activists on Wednesday,as internal and international pressure mounted on the country’s military to walk back its coup.