Neither side shows any willingness to heed appeals from US, UK, African Union and Arab states as death toll nears 100
Rival government factions inhave rejected calls for a ceasefire and intensified their battle for control of the vast and strategically important country as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict gather momentum.
“We had to move them to the isolation centres along with 70 doctors and nurses, all have been trapped here with no oxygen for the chest patients and that’s really dangerous … The oxygen we have is from the time of the pandemic and it’s limited,” one nurse said. “We are basically in the crossfire between the RSF and the army. They are firing at each other from their positions and we are in between.”01:54Dr Sara Ibrahim Abdelgalil, a UK-based Sudanese democracy activist who is in touch with many health professionals in Khartoum, said: “It is very bad. The real issue is that the armed conflict is inside residential areas. We don’t know how many casualties.
With replacements unable to risk the streets of the city, many staff have been on duty since Friday and are exhausted. “The army seem to be doing well but the RSF have lots of men, weapons and vehicles so could hold out for a really extended time and that’s the scary thought. We just don’t know,” said one aid worker based in El Gedaref, south-east of Khartoum.one of Africa’s biggest and most strategically important countries into chaos. Analysts say only pressure from “heavyweight” intermediaries will have a chance of ending the fighting.
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