War: In Sudan, residents are asking for donations to survive

Nine people were killed in a “technical” plane crash in Sudan on Sunday evening, as residents appealed for food donations to help them survive in the East African country ravaged by more than three months of bloody war between the military and paramilitaries.

Due to the incessant fighting, especially in the capital Khartoum, millions of people are trapped in their homes, some without running water, especially in the suburbs of Khartoum-Nord. Locals report that they have only intermittent electricity and almost no food.

To help them, a neighborhood group in Khartoum launched an “urgent appeal” to people on Sunday: “We must support each other, give food and money to those around us,” Al-Tanakla group wrote.

“It’s enough to last two days.”

Abbas Mohammed Babikar, a resident of Khartoum North, told AFP his family had to limit themselves to one meal a day. “We only have two more days,” he added. “In the fighting, there is no market anymore, anyway, we don’t have money,” said Essam Abbas, another resident. All government employees have not been paid since March at least.

Last week, violinist Khaled Senhuri, a prominent musical figure in Khartoum, died of “starvation” in Omdurman, a town facing the capital Khartoum, unable to leave his home to get supplies, several of his friends said on Facebook.

Nine people, including four soldiers, were killed when a civilian plane crashed in Port-Sudan on the war-torn east coast on Sunday evening, the military said. “A child survived” the crash of this “Antonov civil plane” at this airport, the only one operating in the country, he notes.

Nearly 4,000 people died

Since April 15, airstrikes by the army led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and artillery and drone fire by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Daghlo’s Rapid Support Forces (FSR) have claimed 3,900 lives and displaced 3.3 million people, according to a new report by the NGO Acled.

Before the war, one in three Sudanese already suffered from hunger. Today, more than half of the 48 million Sudanese need humanitarian assistance to survive, but NGOs and the UN On Sunday, in Port Sudan, where many officials are now staying, officials announced that Sudan – Africa’s third-largest producer – was exporting its first gold since the war began.

It was 226 kilograms sent to the United Arab Emirates, a major buyer of Sudanese gold, officials told a press conference. At the same time, the state-owned Mining Resources Corporation announced that eight miners had died in an artisanal mine in Port Sudan state.

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