Talks continue in Jeddah between Sudanese army and RSF delegations
700,604 displaced and <> killed in clashes in Sudan
Makeshift tents for displaced Sudanese near the border with Chad. Reuters
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said yesterday that more than 700,<> people have fled their homes in Sudan due to fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
U.N. spokesman Paul Dillon told a news conference in Geneva that there were more than 700,<> displaced people inside Sudan since the fighting began until yesterday.
"It is now very difficult for the Sudanese to get money. ATMs are down and the banking system is not working. "It is also difficult for them to get fuel and it is very expensive."
The World Health Organization announced at the same conference that 604 people had been killed and more than five thousand injured since violence erupted on April 15.
In addition, talks continued between representatives of the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, received a phone call from the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, during which they discussed the latest developments in the Republic of Sudan, and the two sides reviewed the developments of the Saudi-American initiative to host representatives of the two parties in Jeddah, which aims to prepare the necessary ground for dialogue to reduce the level of tensions. Over there.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry said talks between the delegations of the two sides were expected to last for a few more days in the port city of Jeddah.
Sudanese army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan told al-Qahira News Channel that ongoing negotiations with the Rapid Support Forces would not work without a ceasefire.
"A settlement of the conflict can be discussed after a permanent ceasefire is reached in Khartoum," Burhan said, warning that the war would spread to the rest of the country if there was a rift in the capital.
The governor of the Egyptian Red Sea Governorate, Amr Hanafi, said that an Egyptian warship participating in efforts to evacuate people fleeing the conflict in Sudan arrived at the Egyptian port of Safaga overlooking the Red Sea yesterday, coming from the port of Port Sudan with more than 466 Egyptians and foreigners on board, adding that the ship carried 272 Egyptians, 184 Sudanese, five British, three Rwandans and one American.
Thousands of people fleeing the clashes have crossed the land border from Sudan into Egypt since the conflict began.
At least 16 people have been killed in tribal clashes between Hausa and Nuba in Sudan, Sudan's state news agency reported yesterday, leading to the announcement of a curfew in White Nile state.
Clashes between the two tribes resulted in many people being injured and houses burned.
The state is located on Sudan's southern border and has so far remained untouched by the fighting in the country, and these tribal clashes do not appear to be linked to the power struggle.
"The governor of White Nile issued an emergency order declaring a curfew within the city of Kosti," the state capital.
Violent clashes erupted last October in neighbouring Blue Nile state between the Hausa tribe and other tribes, killing 200 people in two days.
• 16 killed in tribal clashes. A curfew was imposed in White Nile State.