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Today, the ongoing ethnic clashes in West Darfur are exacerbating the situation in Sudan, already hard hit by ceasefire violations between the army and the so-called Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The Sudan Doctors’ Union on Tuesday announced the collapse of the health system in West Darfur state following the recent resumption of ethnic fighting that has already left dozens dead and hundreds injured.
The confrontation between Arab and African tribes started again on April 24 in the city of Geneina, capital of West Darfur state and near the Chad border.
This region of Sudan was affected by an ethnic conflict between 2003 and 2008 that claimed the lives of 300,000 people and is an area dominated by the RSF because many of its fighters are from there.
Meanwhile, in this capital, the humanitarian and health situation is rapidly deteriorating as the bombings continue on the second day of the new ceasefire, the third consecutive 72-hour ceasefire that came into effect on Sunday.
According to local sources, fighting between the army and the RSF continues at the airport north of the town and south of the neighboring town of Um Dorman.
Both parties to the conflict accuse each other of systematic violations of the ceasefire or attacks on residential areas and health facilities.
Amidst this situation, the United Nations warned that more than 800,000 people could flee Sudan because of fighting, starvation and destruction.
The clashes in Sudan erupted on April 15 over contradictions amid an integration process of the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, vice-president of the Sovereign Transition Council (CST) within the armed forces and head of the army and President of the CST, Abdelfatá al Burhan .
Both have contested control of the country at the rank of general after the ouster of Omar Hasan al-Bashir’s regime in 2019.