Jonathan Nwokpor
Leading United Nations (UN) officials have issued a dire warning, stating that 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in “extreme and immediate danger” due to the escalating violence that might spark violent intercommunal conflict across Darfur.
ZINGTIE recalls that the world’s worst displacement crisis occurred a year ago when fighting broke out in Sudan between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Army (SAF).
UN Political Affairs Chief Rosemary DiCarlo informed the 15-member Security Council that fighting between RSF and SAF-aligned JPF members was getting closer to El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.
“Fighting in El Fasher could unleash bloody inter-communal strife throughout Darfur,” DiCarlo said, echoing a warning by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday.
The UN has said nearly 25 million people, half of Sudan’s population, need aid and some 8 million have fled their homes.
“The violence poses an extreme and immediate danger to the 800,000 civilians who reside in El Fasher,” said the UN aid operations director, Edem Wosornu.
“And it risks triggering further violence in other parts of Darfur – where more than 9 million people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance,” she said.
Late last month, a global food security authority supported by the UN declared that urgent action is required to “avert a catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan and prevent widespread death and total collapse of livelihoods.”
At a summit in Paris, donors promised more than two billion dollars for the war-torn nation of Sudan.
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