November 17, Nairobi — Hospitals in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, have performed 22,000 operations to remove bullets, a health official said on Saturday. Over 33,000 people have been treated for war injuries.
Mohamed Ibrahim, head of the Health Emergency Committee, said that 31 out of 54 government hospitals are currently operating in Khartoum and that it plans to open three more. The announcement came as Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visited Khartoum’s health ministry.
Last week a report by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine revealed that 61,000 died in Khartoum since the war began in April 2023 until June 2024. Of these, 26,000 people were killed as a direct result of the violence. Over 90% of deaths in Khartoum went unrecorded, the report also said.
Additionally, it came at the same time as Amnesty International said that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was using French-manufactured military technology, supplied by the United Arab Emirates, on the battlefield.
“Our research shows that weaponry designed and manufactured in France is in active use on the battlefield in Sudan,” Amnesty’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard said in a statement. The European Union has imposed an arms embargo on Sudan since 1994.