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The Un’s envoy to Sudan has stepped down. Volker Perthes had been working from outside of the country but had stayed on in his post despite being declared persona non grata by Khartoum in June. That followed his denuciation of possible crimes against humanity committed during the civil war that erupted in the country in April. Since then at least 7500 people have been killed in fighting between the army and the RSF paramilitary. The violence has turned the capital into a battle zone, gutted infrastructure and the health system, forced more than 5 million people from their homes and taken on a brutal ethnic dimension in Darfur. On wedensdya medics there said at least 40 people had been killed in an air raid. For more, FRANCE 24 is joined by Sudanese political analsyt activist Kholood Khair who is in New York during the UN general assembly to lobby for more international support to the victims of the conflict.
