‘Catastrophic toll’ as Sudan’s warring sides refuse to budge: MSF
Al Jazeera
Hospitals have not been spared and humanitarian missions are being blocked, the NGO says.
Civilians face violence and killings and health workers and medical facilities are suffering persistent attacks amid severe violence being perpetrated by both warring sides in Sudan, Doctors Without Borders has said in a new report.
The NGO, known by its French initials MSF, warned in the report issued on Monday that protection of civilians has collapsed, with entire communities “facing indiscriminate violence, killings, torture and sexual violence amid persistent attacks on health workers and medical facilities”.
Both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their supporters are “inflicting horrendous violence on people across the country”, the report, entitled “A war on people – The human cost of conflict and violence in Sudan”, reads.
More than 10 million people have been displaced since the war started in April 2023, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) of the United Nations.
The war has wrought a catastrophic toll with hospitals attacked, markets bombed, and houses razed to the ground, the MSF report adds.
