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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 9, 2024, p. 18

Port Sudan., The Sudan Doctors Union indicated yesterday that more than 200 people have died in recent days in Al Hilaliya, a city besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The Foreign Ministry reported in a statement that the victims They were shot to death or died from food poisoning and lack of medical care after being taken hostage by militias in various places in the city..

The RSF committed numerous crimes in 59 villages and six cities in the east of the province, as well as in North Darfur, in revenge for the defection of several of its commanders to the Sudanese army. Sudan is going through a crisis after the overthrow in April 2019 of then-president Omar al Bashir, who ruled the country for almost three decades, since October 1993, and since April 2023 fighting has been fought between the RSF and the regular army.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that the number of victims of the conflict in Sudan is more than 20 thousand people, while the internally displaced are more than 11 million.