UNITED NATIONS: The people of Sudan continue to face unimaginable suffering amid clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and rival militia the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in several parts of the country, with neither side achieving victory nor making any notable gains, UN officials said on Wednesday.
Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General, told a UN Security Council meeting on the current situation in the country that the violence has led to the widespread displacement of civilians. She also voiced concern about the escalation in the violence in important areas, and declaring of civilian neighborhoods as parts of operations by both waring sides, which is further aggraving a serious humanitarian crisis, Arab News reported.
Pobee added that targeted and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and infrastructure continue in the capital city Khartoum, North Kordofan, and Darfur. She demanded for the protection of civilians and to ensure that humanitarian law and human rights are not violated are being ignored.
Human rights violations in Sudan
She said that victimization of children, widespread sexual violence, and the risk of forced recruitment into war continue, along with the increased ruskof abduction and the killings of human rights activists in Khartoum and Darfur.
The effects of the fighting on the Darfur region is of a special concern, Pobee said, as she underlined the resurging of simmering ethnic tensions and the garve violence in parts such as El-Geneina and Sirba.
She said that the warring parties have exacted enormous suffering on the people of the Darfur where the fighting continues to reopen the old wounds of ethnic tensions of past conflicts in the area.
She added that this phenomenon was extremely disturbing and could quickly engulf the whole nation in a prolonged ethnic conflict, wich could spillover across the borders.
