 Sudan is teetering on the brink of a 'full-scale civil war' that could throw the entire region into chaos, a top UN humanitarian boss has said. Africa's third-largest nation has been shaken for months by fighting between a paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Army. The two warring generals have left hundreds of civilians dead and thousands more injured, the Sudanese American Physicians Association (Sapa) says. After a US-brokered truce fell apart, healthcare services are rapidly unravelling, electricity is spotty at best, food and water are in short supply and millions have been displaced. If this all continues, Martin Griffiths, chief of the UN's humanitarian and emergency relief office, Sudan will spiral. 'We don't have a place, a forum, where the two parties are present… where we can broker the kind of basic agreements that we need to move supplies and people,' he told The Associated Press. The clashes have killed hundreds, injured thousands and displaced millions, UN officials say (Picture: Reuters) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, says Sudan is on the brink of a 'civil war' (Picture: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire/Shutterstock) Griffiths warns it's becoming increasingly difficult to get aid into Sudan (Picture: AFP) Getting humanitarian aid to Sudan is tricky, Griffiths said, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies chalking it up to a lack of funding and how aid and medical are being targeted by armed soldiers. 'If I were Sudanese, I find it hard to imagine that this isn't a civil war… of the most brutal kind,' he added. 'Part of that is it's not limited to one place, it's spreading, it's viral. 'It's a threat to the state itself… and if that doesn't qualify for being a civil war, I don't know what does.' 'We have to re-create the architecture that we had for a little while in Jed){kind=link}
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Sudan is teetering on the brink of a ‘full-scale civil war’ that could throw the entire region into chaos, a top UN humanitarian boss has said.
Africa’s third-largest nation has been shaken for months by fighting between a paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Army.
The two warring generals have left hundreds of civilians dead and thousands more injured, the Sudanese American Physicians Association (Sapa) says.
After a US-brokered truce fell apart, healthcare services are rapidly unravelling, electricity is spotty at best, food and water are in short supply and millions have been displaced.