In Sudan, armed men threatened and insulted a team of the aid organization Doctors Without Borders. The organization announced on Friday that 18 employees had been beaten and flogged in the immediate vicinity of a hospital in Khartoum.
A driver of the aid organization was temporarily arrested on Thursday and threatened with life. “Unfortunately, if an incident like this were to happen again and medical care was hampered, our presence in the Turkish hospital would quickly become unsustainable,” said Christophe Garnier, MSF’s director of operations in Sudan.
The NGO is one of the few aid organizations still active in Sudan. A violent power struggle between the president and the vice president has been raging in the country since mid-April (see video above). The army is fighting against the RSF militia of former Vice President Mohammed Hamdan Daglo. The health care system in the capital Khartoum has almost completely collapsed.
Violence is not an isolated case
Since the start of the conflict, there have been repeated attacks on aid workers and aid warehouses have been looted. There are also reports of sexual violence against women and girls, mainly perpetrated by the RSF militia.
Source: Krone
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