While the World Health Organisation (WHO) expects “many more” deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks of disease and a lack of essential services amid the fighting, the officials of the United Nations said one side in the Sudan conflict has seized control of a national health lab in the capital of Khartoum.
The lab holds biological equipment and is located in central Khartoum, close to flashpoints of the fighting that pits Sudan’s military against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group that grew out of the notorious Janjaweed militias implicated in atrocities in the Darfur conflict.
Battles between Sudan’s army and the RSF paramilitary since mid-April have killed at least 459 people and injured more than 4,000, according to the WHO.
“On top of the number of deaths and injuries caused by the conflict itself, the WHO expects there will be many more deaths due to outbreaks, lack of access to food and water and disruptions to essential health services, including immunization,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. The fighting has plunged Sudan into chaos, pushing the already heavily aid-dependent African nation to the brink of collapse.
Before the clashes, the UN estimated that a third of Sudan’s population, or about 16 million people, needed assistance, a figure that is likely to increase.
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