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Nine Killed in Port Sudan Plane Crash

Nine Killed in Port Sudan Plane Crash

BY ADNAN SHAHEED 07/31/2023 AGO 0 COMMENTS

Nine people, including four soldiers, were killed last Sunday evening in Wad Madani, Sudan, when a civilian plane crashed in Sudan due to “technical” reasons, according to the army, as the war in the east African country entered its 100th day.
 

9 killed in civilian plane crash in Sudan, as war-hit capital left hungry
Port Sudan International Airport. Photo: Reuters

 

In Port Sudan, on the east coast, which has been largely spared by the war, the army said a child had survived the crash of the Antonov plane. Port Sudan airport is the only one still working in the country due to the conflict.
 

The fighting has left millions of people trapped in their homes, some without food, water, and other essentials, particularly in the suburbs of the capital Khartoum where residents were calling for food donations to help them survive.


In a war-devastated district of the city, Abbas Mohammed Babiker says he and his family have only been able to eat once a day. Even now, what little these residents have may be lost. On Sunday a citizens’ support group issued an urgent appeal for donations to help people like him.

 



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Since April 15, battles between the army led by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), headed by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, have killed more than 3,900 people, according to the latest toll from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).


More than 2.6 million people have been internally displaced, mostly from Khartoum, the International Organization for Migration said.


Thousands who remain in the capital, particularly in Khartoum North, are trapped without water since the local water station was damaged at the start of the war. Residents say there is only intermittent electricity and food has nearly run out.

 

A Russian-made IL-76, similar to the aircraft that crashed. Photo: Lum Wei Tuck | AeroXplorer

 

 “We only have enough for two more days,” Babiker said from Khartoum North, where residents said at least one person, a local musician, has already died from hunger. 


Across the country, about one-third of the population already faced hunger even before the war began, said the United Nations’ World Food Programme. Despite the security challenges, the agency says it has reached more than 1.4 million people with emergency food aid as needs intensify.


“With the fighting, there is no market any more and anyway we have no money,” said another resident of Khartoum North, Essam Abbas.

 



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To help them, the local “resistance committee,” a pro-democracy neighborhood group, issued an emergency appeal. “We have to support each other, give food and money and distribute to those around us,” the committee wrote on Facebook.


In adjacent Omdurman, Khartoum’s other battle-scarred sister city, locally known violinist Khaled Senhouri “died from hunger” last week, according to friends on Facebook.


In his own online posts, Senhouri had said he was unable to leave home because of the fighting and had tried to hang on with the supplies that he had. It, unfortunately, wasn’t enough.

 

Photo: Peter Cuthbert | AeroXplorer

 

Because of people like Khaled Senhouri, Humanitarian group CARE International called for a cease-fire and the establishment of a safe corridor to allow the delivery of basic goods and services to those trapped in the fighting, as well as funds to meet the growing needs of Sudanese.

 

“The world cannot afford to look away from the worsening situation in Sudan as it has the potential to destabilize the entire region,” stated David MacDonald, CARE’s country director in Sudan.

 

Talks between the military and the RSF in the Saudi Arabian coastal city of Jeddah repeatedly failed to stop the fighting. The Jeddah talks were brokered by Saudi Arabia and the United States.

 



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Pro-democracy leaders, meanwhile, were meeting Monday afternoon in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, the first such gathering of Sudanese politicians since the outbreak of the war.

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