Sudanese paramilitaries have announced the creation of a rival government after two years of war in the country, Agence France-Presse reported, quoted by BTA.
According to the leader of the paramilitary "Rapid Support Forces", Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is a former Sudanese vice president, the government they announced represents the true face of Sudan.
The war in Sudan began as a power struggle between Dagalo's "Rapid Support Forces" and the armed forces commanded by Sudan's de facto president, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Dagalo. The conflict has killed thousands and displaced millions.
The paramilitaries' announcement of a rival government comes shortly after they were driven out of the capital, Khartoum. After losing the city, they have focused their attacks on Darfur, in the western part of the country, in an attempt to capture El Fasher, the last provincial capital in the region that has eluded them.
On Sunday, the paramilitaries announced that they had completely captured the "Zamzam" camp in Darfur, where more than 500,000 Sudanese displaced by the conflict live.
The rapidly escalating violence in South Sudan has led to the displacement of about 125,000 people since March, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned today, reported Agence France-Presse, quoted by BTA.
The world's youngest country, rich in oil but extremely poor in other respects, has been rocked by violence in several regions, especially in the northeast of the country.
According to data from the UN humanitarian office, 180 people have been killed and 250 injured as a result of the violence since March.
On March 18, the UN reported that 50,000 people had been displaced as a result of the fighting in the northeast of the country.
"All those involved in the violence, must refrain from harming the population, including humanitarian workers who risk their lives every day to help," the UN mission in South Sudan urged.
In a statement condemning the rapidly escalating violence, the office said four aid workers had been killed and six health facilities had been closed due to looting and destruction.
This security situation, combined with a significant reduction in US aid, is fueling the spread of cholera, the worst outbreak in South Sudan in two decades.
The disease has killed more than 900 people out of nearly 49,000 recorded cases, the UN said. Previous UNICEF estimates as of April 24 had put the number of deaths at nearly 700 and the number of cases at more than 40,000.
There have been clashes in several areas of South Sudan, and the arrest in March of Vice President Riek Machar by forces loyal to President Salva Kiir was an escalation that brought the country closer to a new conflict, almost seven years after the end of a devastating civil war.
Between 2013 and 2018, fighting between supporters of the two political rivals killed an estimated 400,000 people and displaced four million.