Sudan’s rival military forces are engaged in battles throughout the capital, causing intensifying attacks and growing lawlessness that add to the misery of civilians already struggling with limited water, food, and medicine.
On Tuesday, artillery fire and air strikes were reported in southern and eastern Khartoum and northern Bahri, a city north of the capital, with residents reporting artillery and small-arms fire.
Looters, some of whom Khartoum residents allege belong to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, have pillaged neighbourhoods across the city, stealing cars, breaking open safes, and occupying people’s homes.
“Our neighbourhood has become a warzone. There are fierce clashes and strikes all around. … We are scared of dying, but we are also scared of leaving our house and being burgled,” said 45-year-old Jawahir Mohamed.
Aid groups have struggled to provide assistance to civilians, who also face electricity shortages and dwindling supplies in shops and pharmacies. Neighbourhood-based resistance committees have organised supplies of food and medicines but have struggled to deliver them as fighting intensified this week.
Sudan’s army and RSF fought overnight in the streets of Omdurman, a city across the Nile from Khartoum, near the army’s Engineers Corps base. The army was able to maintain its positions around the base but could not push back the RSF, which controls most of the rest of the city.
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