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Top United Nations, UN, officials have warned that 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in extreme and immediate danger as worsening violence advances and threatens to unleash bloody inter-communal strife throughout Darfur.
DAILY POST recalls that war broke out in Sudan one year ago between the Sudanese army, SAF, and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, creating the worlds largest displacement crisis.
UN political affairs chief, Rosemary DiCarlo told the 15-member Security Council that clashes between RSF and SAF-aligned members of the Joint Protection Forces were nearing the capital of North Darfur, El Fasher.
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 Sudans 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.
A United Nations-backed global authority on food security said late last month that immediate action is needed to prevent widespread death and total collapse of livelihoods and avert a catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan.
Donors pledged more than 2 billion dollars for war+torn Sudan at a conference in Paris on Monday.
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