More than 410 deaths in Sudan due to clashes between the Army and the RSF paramilitaries

The WHO stresses that "the continuous attacks against the health system in Sudan are disturbing"

The death toll from the fighting that broke out on Saturday in Sudan between the Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has risen to more than 410, according to data provided by the World Health Organization (WHO).

"According to the Sudanese health authorities, there are 413 dead and 3,551 wounded since the outbreak of the fighting in Sudan," said a WHO spokesman, in the framework of the sixth day of fighting, which continues despite the fact that the RSF announced during the early this Friday a 72-hour ceasefire on the occasion of Eid al Fitr, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan.

For his part, the organization's director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has outlined in a message on his account on the social network Twitter that "the continuous attacks against the health system in Sudan are disturbing", after the Sudanese Ministry of Health warned that health care is on the verge of "total collapse" due to the hostilities.

"These reprehensible acts of violence not only endanger the lives of health workers, but deprive vulnerable people of essential medical care," said Tedros, who stressed that "the fighting in Sudan must end immediate".

The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors has repeatedly denounced attacks against health facilities in Khartoum and other parts of the country and on Wednesday detailed that more than half of the medical centers in the capital and adjacent states have remained "service force". for the clashes.

The hostilities broke out in the context of an increase in tensions around the integration of the RSF --led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias 'Hemedti', who is also vice president of the Sovereign Transition Council-- within the Forces Armed Forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December to form a new civilian government and reactivate the transition.

The talks process began with international mediation after the head of the Army and president of the Sovereign Transition Council, Abdelfatá al Burhan, led a coup in October 2021 that overthrew the then prime minister of unity, Abdalá Hamdok, appointed to the position as a result of contacts between civilians and the military after the April 2019 riot, which ended 30 years of the regime of Omar Hasan al Bashir.