The UN estimates the rehabilitation of the capital’s essential facilities to cost around $350 million, while the full rebuilding of Khartoum “will take years and several billion dollars”, Renda told AFP.
With daily strikes on the city since then, the RSF has sought to demonstrate its strength, discredit the army, disrupt its supply lines and project an air of legitimacy, experts believe.
They warned such a move would “risk exacerbating the ongoing conflict in Sudan, fragmenting the country, and worsening an already dire humanitarian situation”.
The report highlights that mass sexual violence has been widely documented as a weapon of war in the nearly two-year conflict.
UNICEF’s findings reveal that 221 rape cases against children have been officially reported since the start of 2024, but the true number is likely much higher.
UNICEF imebaini kuwa kesi 221 za ubakaji dhidi ya watoto zimeripotiwa rasmi tangu mwanzo wa mwaka 2024, lakini idadi halisi inaweza kuwa kubwa zaidi. Waathiriwa ni pamoja na wavulana na wasichana, ambapo theluthi moja ya waathiriwa ni wavulana.
The surge in cases was attributed to a “shortage of water due to power outages,” the health ministry in White Nile state said in a statement.
Sarah had survived famine, multiple wars and years of displacement in Sudan’s Zamzam camp and never considered fleeing, until a paramilitary attack turned the site into a “killing field”.
An estimated “8,000 households were displaced from Saloma village and the surrounding area” south of state capital El-Fasher on Friday and Saturday, said the UN’s International Organization for Migration.
Shelling by Sudanese paramilitaries killed five people outside one of the last functioning hospitals in Khartoum’s twin city Omdurman Tuesday, with medical sources reporting escalating violence across the war-torn country.
The UN has launched a $4.2 billion call for funds, targeting 20.9 million people across Sudan from a total of 30.4 million people it said are in need in what it called “an unprecedented humanitarian crisis”.
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