Brussels 06.09.2024 The EU diplomacy described the situation in Sudan as “catastrophic”, being the biggest displacement crisis in the world, especially effecting women, and children.
“…The EU is committed to work hand in hand with the UN, including the OHCHR (The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights), and national, and regional partners, and mechanisms to support lasting peaceful solution for this manmade calamity..” the European External Action Service spokesperson said.
Sudan’s war has been raging since April 2023. The country was on a long awaited way to democracy after mass uprisings in 2019 ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. The democratic aspirations were brutally crashed when troops from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary force, clashed with the governmental troops in 15 April 2023.
In the following months the intense fighting between the RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces has left millions of persons harmed by the atrocities of war. The entire cities have been reduced to heaps of rubble and communities rapidly displaced. According the conservative estimates around 20,000 people had been killed by August 2024.
Nowadays Sudan is the site of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. According to UN experts, around 25 million people, half of Sudan’s population before the war, are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. Nearly nine million people are internally displaced, among them about 4 million children. Another 20 million children are out of school. Over a half of the population of approximately 50 million Sudanese doesn’t have access to the basic healthcare.
However Sudan’s de facto ruler, army chief general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, refused to join peace talks in Switzerland, saying his troops would “fight for 100 years” if necessary to defeat the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
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