Japan's foreign ministry said the country has begun the process of evacuating its nationals from Sudan amid persistent violence that has left at least 270 dead.
Smoke rises over the horizon as a fire burns after a strike in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, April 16, 2023.The move comes after fighting in Sudan — between two opposing generals — raged for a fifth day after an internationally brokered truce failed.
More than 2,600 people in the country have also been wounded since fighting began Saturday, according to the director-general of the U.N.'s World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus. Of those victims, at least 174 civilians are among the deceased and hundreds of civilians have been wounded, the Sudan Doctors' Syndicate said.led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. The conflict stems from Sudan’s Western-led transition to democratic rule after decades of dictatorship.
Sudan has seldom settled and fighting between opposing peoples and ideologies in the country and with South Sudan has spanned decades.
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