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Sudan trapped in ‘inferno of brutal violence’, UN says
Updated On: 17 May, 2024 10:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Agencies
Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military led by Gen
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Sudanese men burn tires during a protest. File Pic/AP
The Sudanese people ‘are trapped in an inferno of brutal violence” with famine, disease and fighting closing in and no end in sight, the top UN humanitarian official in the war-ravaged country said.
Clementine Nkweta-Salami told a UN press conference that “horrific atrocities are being committed with reckless abandon, reports of rape, torture and ethnically motivated violence are streaming in”, communities and families have been torn apart, and almost 9 million people have been forced to flee their homes in what is now the world’s largest displacement crisis.
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