Ceasefire broken, more than 13 people die on first day of Aid al Fitren festival in Sudan

At least 13 people died yesterday during the first day of Eid al Fitr, a festival that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims, from clashes between the Sudanese army and the powerful paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR) spanning decades. per week, the Sudanese Arts Union reported today.

“The number of civilian casualties for April 21 is 13 civilian dead and 119 woundedincluding many unstable cases,” the union said, pointing out that the city of Al Obeid, one of the hardest hit city, is not on the list because of the inability to verify “as hospitals could not be reached due to the difficulty of movement and the security situation in the country”.

The same union has previously indicated that four hospitals in Al Obeid were shot at yesterday 13 health centers attacked from the beginning of the conflict.

There is one since yesterday three-day truce proposed by the UN by Eid el Fitr agreed between the two opposing sides, although it has not been respected.

Keys to the conflict between the army and the paramilitaries of Sudan

This is the fifth humanitarian pause attempted since last Saturday, but both sides have accused each other of violating them all.

At least 413 people died and 3,551 were injured in Sudan since the outbreak of the conflict, according to the latest tally released yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The fighting that began on April 15 between the Sudanese army and the FAR arose after weeks of tension over the reform of the security forces in the negotiations to form a new transitional government.

Both forces were the architects of the joint coup that overthrew Sudan’s transitional government in October 2021.