The plane, which also carries humanitarian personnel, took off from Amman and landed in Port-Sudan, a coastal city 850 km east of Khartoum where the fighting is concentrated. Sudanese airspace has been closed since April 15 as fighting started at Khartoum airport. We now hope to be able to deliver it quickly to the largest hospitals in Khartoum”, Patrick Youssef, the ICRC’s regional director for Africa, told journalists. Since mid-April, 528 people have been killed and more than 4,000 injured, according to the Sudanese Ministry of Health. However, this figure is still very provisional as the bodies littering the streets are inaccessible and therefore impossible to count.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 01, 2023 12:05 UTC