Inès Zeghloul, edited by Loane Nader / photo credit: AFP 10:46 am, April 25, 2023

For ten days, clashes have been taking place in Sudan between the armed forces of two generals, causing the death of more than 400 people. On Tuesday, a 72-hour truce was announced by US diplomacy. It allows foreign nationals to leave the country, such as Charline Petitjean, field coordinator of the NGO Solidarité internationale.

In Sudan, clashes between the armed forces of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, currently in power, and those of General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, have caused the death of more than 400 people and the flight of thousands to Chad, since 15 April in Sudan. On Tuesday, the United States signed a 72-hour truce through Anthony Blinken, head of American diplomacy. It is therefore an opportunity for all foreign nationals to evacuate the country which is going through a period of unprecedented conflict.

If the respect of this ceasefire is not certain on the part of each of the belligerents, the France has at least been able to take care of 400 people, including Charline Petitjean, field coordinator in western Sudan for the NGO Solidarité Internationale. "We have felt tensions rise gradually since March with more and more attacks, shooting and more and more looting," she said.

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"A feeling of helplessness"

"On the fifteenth, when the conflict started, so in the middle of Ramadan, no one expected to have fighting in the cities like this," she added. "We lack water and food. There is no electricity, we have internet cuts, telephone network cuts." The coordinator for the NGO notes above all the violence that characterizes these last days. "It's very complicated to treat the wounded. We had some pretty strong fights the first weekend and even today the city is on fire."

And for Charline Petitjean, it is very difficult to find oneself powerless in the face of such a situation. "We are talking about more than 30,000 people who would have crossed into Chad, so it is really a feeling of helplessness and enormous frustration," she told Europe 1. "The state of mind is really to return as soon as possible to help the people."