"There are severe shortages in food and fuel," he said, warning of an impending "humanitarian disaster". Human Rights Watch said Thursday that thousands more Sudanese are "stranded in dire humanitarian conditions" on the border, and urged Cairo to "rescind its entry visa rule" which was recently toughened.Ĭentral African Republic's president, Faustin-Archange Touadera, warned of growing "small arms smuggling" across his country's "porous border" with Sudan.
Sisi, a close ally of the Sudanese army, said more than 250,000 Sudanese had fled to Egypt, "joining around five million Sudanese citizens who have lived in Egypt for many years". Sudanese Army sodliers walk near armoured vehicles stationed on a street in southern Khartoum on © - / AFP/File He called on the international community "to honour the commitments" made last month when donors pledged $1.5 billion in aid - less than half the estimated need for Sudan and its affected neighbours. In Cairo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hailed the "noble efforts" of Sudan's neighbours in "receiving hundreds of thousands of refugees with limited resources in an extremely difficult global economic situation". Khan said there had been a "wide range of communications" about alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan since the fighting broke out in April. The ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan said in a report to the UN Security Council Thursday that his office "can confirm that it has commenced investigations in relation to incidents occurring in the context of the present hostilities".
The United Nations has warned that Sudan's conflict risks spiralling into "a full-scale civil war, potentially destabilising the entire region". Leaders of Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Chad, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Libya as well as of the African Union and Arab League met in Cairo to discuss the war and its regional impact © - / EGYPTIAN PRESIDENCY/AFP
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