By Oyintari Ben
As violence between opposing forces continued in Khartoum for a fourth day, a resident of the capital of Sudan said that she had run out of drinking water.
Duaa Tariq stated, “This morning we ran out,” adding that she was reserving one bottle specifically for her two-year-old child.
Despite efforts, the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) organisation refuse to agree to a truce.
In some of the capital’s residential quarters, the RSF has been plundering.
Residents of the Khartoum 2 community said that the RSF militia had been visiting homes and yelling for food and water.
Aidan O’Hara, the ambassador for the EU, was assaulted in this neighbourhood while at home. He was not gravely harmed, according to the Irish foreign minister.
The airport, located in the heart of Khartoum and very adjacent to the military headquarters, is surrounded by heavy bombardments and black smoke. There are reports of tanks on several streets.
The personnel and patients at a local cancer hospital claim that the violence has imprisoned them because residential areas surround the airport.
The situation worsened since there was no food or medicine, a female patient at Al-Zara Hospital told news agencies on Monday. As a result of receiving patients from another hospital attacked by the RSF, the hospital is already at capacity.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that a shortage of supplies affects up to seven states across the nation.
According to WHO’s Sudan representative Dr Nima Saeed Abid, “the majority of the hospitals are reporting [being] out of] medical supplies, blood bags, oxygen, and other many important medicine and surgical kits.”
The BBC reports that the two generals whose forces struggle for dominance are in daily touch with Volker Perthes, the UN special envoy to Sudan, but he claims they are not speaking to one another.
The fighting did not stop for the entirety of the Sunday and Monday truces.
