Sudan trapped in ‘inferno of brutal violence’, UN says

Sudanese men burn tires during a protest. File Pic/AP

The Sudanese people ‘are trapped in an inferno of brutal violence" with famine, disease and fighting closing in and no end in sight, the top UN humanitarian official in the war-ravaged country said.

Clementine Nkweta-Salami told a UN press conference that "horrific atrocities are being committed with reckless abandon, reports of rape, torture and ethnically motivated violence are streaming in", communities and families have been torn apart, and almost 9 million people have been forced to flee their homes in what is now the world's largest displacement crisis.

Earlier this month, the UN food agency warned Sudan's warring parties that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan if they don't allow humanitarian aid into the vast western region - a view echoed Wednesday by Nkweta-Salami.

Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, broke out into street battles.

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