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2023-09-14 Africa Horn
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At least 40 killed in Darfur as Sudan army chief visits Turkey
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[AlAhram] At least 40 non-combatants were killed in an air raid on war-torn Sudan
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's western region of Darfur Wednesday, according to a medical source, as army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan headed to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
"Forty civilians have been killed in an air strike that hit two markets and a number of the city's neighbourhoods," the medical source told AFP from a hospital in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. The source asked for anonymity out of security concerns.
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Witnesses in the area had earlier reported air strikes falling on two markets and causing civilian casualties in Sudan's second-biggest city, where fighting intensified last month.
The vast region of Darfur -- the size of La Belle France and home to a quarter of Sudan's population -- has seen some of the worst fighting in the five-month war between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by Burhan's former deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo.
Since April 15, nearly 7,500 people have been killed, according to a conservative estimate from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
Wednesday's attack came a day after a medical source reported 17 civilians killed in Khartoum's sister city of Omdurman. Witnesses described the attack as RSF shelling.
On Sunday, at least 51 people were killed and dozens maimed in air strikes on southern Khartoum, according to United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
chief Volker Turk.
The armed forces control the skies over Khartoum, while RSF fighters continue to dominate the city's streets.
Burhan's visit to Turkey is his fifth trip abroad since late August as he vies for legitimacy in a devastating power struggle with his former deputy.
The army chief, who has been de facto head of state since he led a 2021 coup in collaboration with the RSF's Daglo, will hold talks with Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
on "bilateral relations and ways to strengthen them", said Burhan's office.
Until late last month, Burhan had been holed up under siege by the RSF at army headquarters in Khartoum.
From his new base in the Red Sea coastal city of Port Sudan, he has since visited Egypt, South Sudan, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
in what analysts say is a diplomatic push to burnish his credentials in the event of negotiations to end the conflict.
Earlier diplomatic efforts had repeatedly failed to establish a sustained ceasefire.
The violence shows no signs of abating while the humanitarian needs of millions -- both inside Sudan and in its neighbouring countries -- increase.
The war has uprooted more than five million people, including one million who fled across borders, according to UN figures.
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