Khartoum (AFP) April 27, 2023 - The Sudanese army pounded paramilitaries in the capital Khartoum with air strikes Thursday while deadly fighting flared in Darfur as the conflict entered a 13th day despite a US-brokered ceasefire.
The United Nations has decried the rate of prison breaks amid the violence raging in Sudan, leading to the escape of Sudanese war crimes suspects and worsening impunity. UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva on Friday that if nothing was done to check the situation, the conflict would reignite ethnic clashes in the western Darfur region which had left nearly 100 dead in a matter of days, Manila Bulletin reports. Shamdasani said, "We're very, very deeply alarmed by the prison breaks.