Both residents and Sudanese in the diaspora invested in homes to secure the future. Now the conflict is destroying hope.

CANNES : For Mohamed Kordofani, being at the Cannes Film Festival is bittersweet: He directed the first Sudanese film to be included in the festival's official selection as weeks of fighting in Sudan have driven nearly 1.1 million people from their homes."I feel immensely honoured and very happy that the

Sky News' Data and Forensics unit compared satellite images from West Darfur's capital before and after violence broke out in Sudan this year. Schools and markets have been totally wiped out.

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The intense violence in Sudan is destroying a health system already on its knees, writes Sonia Sarkar Trainee anaesthetist Mazin Abd-alaal Helali was attending an emergency surgery at the government run Khartoum North Teaching Hospital in the Sudanese capital when three bullets pierced the glass windows of the operating theatre. While 29 year old Helali was busy moving the patient to the recovery room, minutes later a bomb fell on the septic theatre, a floor above. “The patient in the septic theatre suffered minor injuries by the shelling but he was shifted out immediately,” Helali told The BMJ. “We were petrified to witness such bombing on the hospital. We never saw this before.” More than 530 people, including 11 healthcare staff, have been killed and 4000 others injured in this African country of 47.9 million people, after violence between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) broke out on 15 April over power sharing.1 Besides the cities of Khartoum and Omdurman in Khartoum state,2 the conflict has escalated in North Darfur, North Kordofan, South Darfur, and Kassala.3 A chronically under-resourced and fragmented healthcare system with a high infant mortality rate (38 deaths per 1000 live births4), high maternal mortality rate (295 deaths per 100 000 live births5), and low life expectancy (66 years6) has become the biggest collateral damage of the violence (box 1). Of the 820 hospitals across 18 states in Sudan, 134 are in Khartoum state, where the violence is at its worst. Box 1 ### Inadequate even in normal times Doctors told The BMJ that since healthcare in Sudan is controlled by the health ministry, all healthcare centres including primary, secondary, and tertiary care across the states have been affected as administrative work is stalled in violence hit Khartoum. … RETURN TO TEXT

As peace talks falter, General Abdel Fattah Burhan issues decision to freeze bank accounts of Hemeti's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary and its affiliated companies

In-depth: Over the last decade, through corruption and underhand dealings, gold has provided brutal men – both local and foreign – with the financial means to start wars.

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