Khartoum Bahri residents evacuated amid ongoing clashes

December 15, 2024 (KHARTOUM BAHRI) – A Khartoum Bahri emergency response team announced on Sunday the evacuation of residents from some neighbourhoods to the East Nile area due to ongoing clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The army took control of the al-Samrab area north of Khartoum Bahri last Thursday and Friday, including a main road leading to the al-Azba and Kafouri neighbourhoods near the Signal Corps headquarters in the far south of Khartoum Bahri.

The army, stationed in the Halfaya suburb since last September, is trying to advance south to reach the Signal Corps area and from there to the army’s general command headquarters in central Khartoum, which has been under siege since the outbreak of the war in mid-April 2023.

A member of the Khartoum Bahri emergency response team told Sudan Tribune that 122 people were evacuated last Thursday from the Khartoum Bahri sector in coordination with the East Nile emergency response team, which provided shelter and medicine.

The team member, who preferred not to be named, confirmed that evacuations are ongoing for all citizens wishing to leave the clash zones in Khartoum Bahri neighbourhoods to the East Nile locality, which lies east of Khartoum state and is also under the control of the RSF.

He noted that most of the evacuees suffer from chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, in addition to kidney diseases, malaria, diarrhoea, and skin diseases.