UN concern about the execution of civilians in Khartoum Bahri and reports of deaths due to hunger

UN spokesman Stefan Dujarik said that many of these incidents are called, originally from Darfur or Kordofan. He stated that the United Nations Office for Human Rights continues to verify these developments.

Secretary -General Antonio Guterres reminded all the fighting parties in Sudan with its obligations under international law, especially with regard to the protection of civilians and civil infrastructure. The spokesman said that Sudanese women, men and children are paying the price of continued fighting.

At the daily press conference, the spokesman conveyed the Secretary -General’s call again to the parties to immediately stop the fighting and take steps towards achieving the permanent peace that he strongly needs and demanded by the Sudanese people.

Civilians attacks and deaths due to hunger

On the humanitarian level, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs expressed great concern about the continued attacks on civilians by the parties to the conflict throughout Sudan.

According to reports, 60 people were killed and 150 were wounded by bombing of a crowded market and attacks on several residential sites in Omdurman, Khartoum State. In recent days, civilian victims have reported in the northern Kordofan, north and southern Darfur attacks.

Dujarik said the office is especially concerned about reports of the continued attacks on the Abu Shok camp for the displaced, in which the state of starvation was declared in December.

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Clementine Nikoueta Salami, had condemned these random attacks and called for an immediate endowment of bloodshed.

The Humanitarian Coordination Office expressed great concern about the high malnutrition cases in Khartoum State. Local reports indicate more than 70 deaths related to hunger, most of them children.

In January, more than 1,100 severe malnutritions were recorded in 3 neighborhoods in Omdurman, stressing the urgent need for food aid and stopping combat work. Malnutrition rates in particular in areas forced restrictions for human access to them increases the closure of societal kitchens on which many families relied to survive.

The United Nations spokesman stressed the urgent need to increase the financing of humanitarian efforts and logistical support to continue the application of nutrition programs and the work of community kitchens to ensure that the weakest groups – especially children and the elderly – receive enough food, nutrition and health assistance.