A non-governmental organization (NGO) that specializes in recording victims of armed conflict, ACLED, estimated this Saturday that more than 3,900 people have died in Sudan since the start of the war, 880 of them in the past four weeks.
According to the Spanish news agency Europa Press, citing the latest ACLED report, at least 880 people, including 220 civilians, died from June 14 to July 17, and in these four weeks, “the Sudanese army suffered serious setbacks and ceded territory in the Khartoum, Blue Nile and Darfur areas” to the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The state of Khartoum, home of the country’s capital of the same name, remains the most violent region, with more than 500 deaths in four weeks, followed by Darfur, where 115 people died in heavy fighting, “which has increased in intensity to such an extent that the number of attacks recorded in the previous four weeks has doubled.”