KHARTOUM, Sudan: One month since Sudan's conflict erupted, its capital is a desolate war zone where terrorised families huddle at home as gun battles rage, while the western Darfur region has descended into deadl
, its capital is a desolate war zone where terrorised families huddle at home as gun battles rage, while the western Darfur region has descended into deadly chaos.
Charred aircraft lie on the airport tarmac, foreign embassies are shuttered and hospitals, banks, shops and wheat silos have been ransacked by looters. This combination of pictures shows army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commander, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. "People are getting more and more scared because the two sides ... are becoming more and more violent."
Around 1,000 people have been killed during the fighting, mainly in and around Khartoum as well as theViolence on Friday and Saturday alone in El Geneina left at least 280 killed, according to Sudan's doctor's union, which cited"difficulties in surveying all casualties".
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