More than 330 have died in six days of fighting between two formerly allied leaders of military junta
“Sudan already has one of the highest rates of malnutrition among children in the world,” Mr Elder told reporters. “And now critical life-saving care for an estimated 50,000 severely acutely malnourished children has been disrupted. This is life threatening.”
New efforts to halt fighting appeared to have failed on Friday morning, despite pledges by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to respect a 72-hour truce on humanitarian grounds. The conflict has pitted army units loyal to Sudan’s military ruler, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, against the RSF, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, who is deputy head of the ruling council. Their power struggle has derailed a shift to civilian rule and raised fears of a long, brutal civil war.
“Every day, combats are increasing in intensity and that is why it hasn’t been possible to organise an evacuation yet,” Mr Albares told a joint news conference with his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, in Berlin.
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