At least seven people were killed after the hospital and market were bombed in the southern Sudan, medical benefit, because fears grow from returning to the civil war.
Doctors without borders (IMF) said that helicopters dropped the bomb on the pharmacy of the hospital, run in Old Fangak, Jonglei, leaving it before burning him for 30 minutes. The drone then bombed the local market, said MSF.
The hospital is the only one in the Fangak County, which has a population of more than 110,000 people, said MSF, and all its medical supplies were destroyed.
Charity called attack, which left 20 people injured, “clear violation of international humanitarian law.”
In recent weeks, Nicholas Hays, leading the UN Mission in the South Sudan, warned that the country “Teeering on the edge of the return of the entirely civil war”.
These worries encouraged an escalating feed between President Salvo Kiir and Vice President of Riek Machar.
The hours before the bombing, the head of the army, Paul Majok Nang, promised criminal strikes after the abduction of several bargans on the river.
He blamed those attacks for the militia associated with Machar Vice President, who did not comment on the claim.
Machar was arrested in March together with several his associates and accused of trying to arouse the rebellion.
The government recently listed counties considered hostile through – in other words related to Machar.
It has increased the suspicion that Southern Sudan could be in the second conflict involving two largest ethnic groups in the country.
Southern Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011. years, but two years later, the civil war erupted when President Kiir fired Machar Vice-President, accusing him to draw a cunning.
The next conflict, largely fought with ethnic lines between the supporters of two leaders, resulted in a number of deaths and 2.5 million people who were forced from their homes – more than a fifth of the population.
The peace agreement was reached in 2018. The Government’s unity of the government covers the same two men at the head, but the elections that were supposed to be named from then did not call themselves.
The peacekeeper was also needed to see the end of all the militia and the formation of one unified army – but this did not happen and many armed groups remain loyal for various politicians.
The current crisis was caused earlier this year, when the Militia of the White Army, which the Federation in Machar during the civil war, clashed with the armies in Gornji Nil and violated the military base in Nasir.
At that time, in March, the UN helicopter trying to evacuate the troops came out under fire, leaving several dead, including the high-wing army.
The rights groups invite the army to stop bombing civilian areas.
Additional reporting Yemisi Adegoka & Nichola Mandil
2025-05-03 17:05:00
