WASHINGTON, D.C.: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is sending an envoy to the Sudan region amid the 'unprecedented' situation there, as deadly hostilities enter a third week, his spokesman said Sunday.
The announcement came as the army and heavily armed paramilitaries in Khartoum continued fighting, even as a widely breached ceasefire was extended for 72 hours.UN emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths, who will serve as the envoy, said in a separate statement Sunday that Sudan's 'humanitarian situation is reaching breaking point.
'More than 500 people have been killed and tens of thousands of people forced to leave their homes for safer locations within the country or abroad since battles erupted on April 15.'In light of the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Sudan,' spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement announcing Griffiths' deployment, the envoy would travel 'to the region immediately.
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