More Than 400 Dead, Mass Displacements Amid Clashes - UN Agency Radiodabanga: Sudan
In a report by OCHA on Friday, they state that an aid worker from the International Organisation for Migration was killed two days ago after the"vehicle he was traveling in with his family south of El Obeid, North Kordofan, was caught in a crossfire between warring parties", bringing the number of aid workers killed since April 15 to five.
Reports estimated that between 7,500 and 8,000 people have been displaced from El Obeid and are currently seeking refuge, following fierce SAF-RSF clashes. Yesterday, Radio Dabanga reported that an attack by the RSF onleft 20 policemen dead, including three senior officials. Local sources reported that both sides used heavy weapons, leaving several civilians dead and injured, as well as number of houses in the vicinity damaged by heavy artillery use.
In North Darfur's capital of El Fasher, an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 displaced people, most of whom were women and children, arrived in Chad on Friday. South Sudan's IOM representative in Juba Peter Van Der Auweraert said that at least 2,000 people arrived in the capital today, according to. He added that, they expected more vulnerable people to come at a later stage, as many of the people who made it to Juba"had the means to make it here".
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