On Tuesday, the African Union, in collaboration with the United Nations and IGAD, announced a new concerted effort to de-escalate the ongoing conflict in Sudan
During a news briefing at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, African Union Commission’s Chairperson spokesperson Mohamed El Hacen Lebatt announced that Union had “agreed on the necessity to intensify, collectively and individually, all our effort to reach, as soon as possible, a complete and conditional, efficient, inclusive ceasefire all over Sudan”.
Thousands of people have fled violent fighting in central Khartoum for Sudan’s borders. Some have been waiting for days in the open air to cross the Ashkit land crossing into Egypt.
According to statistics published on Monday by the doctors’ syndicate, which monitors civilian deaths, at least 447 civilians have been killed and more than 2,255 have been wounded since the war began.