“Thousands of Sudanese refugees in Libya are facing severe hardships following a government crackdown on undocumented foreigners that has restricted their movement,” reports the Sudan Tribune:
Since war broke out in Sudan in April 2023, thousands have fled to neighboring Libya. Many now find themselves facing a new crisis, marked by unemployment, economic hardship, and mounting security threats.
Osama Hammad, the prime minister of the eastern-based government appointed by the parliament, has issued a decree banning citizens from Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia from entering Libyan territory via all land, sea, and air ports. The order also mandates the deportation of any foreign nationals currently in the country without valid residency permits….
The human toll of the measures has begun to emerge, with one Sudanese refugee in Libya recounting how her unborn child died after public hospitals refused to treat her because she lacked valid legal status or entry permits.
The refugee, who spoke to the media on condition of anonymity, said she went into labor last week and was turned away by multiple government facilities demanding official documents. She was unable to afford the 7,000 Libyan dinars ($1,440) that private hospitals requested….
Refugees face verbal abuse, physical assaults, and armed threats….Some landlords have advised Sudanese tenants to remain indoors and have helped hide their valuables, laptops, and identification cards to protect them from authorities.
The United Nations recently confirmed that genocide occurred in western Sudan between 2023 and 2026. The U.S. government also concluded that genocide is occurring back in January 2017.
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces committed genocide against the Masalit people of western Sudan. And they slaughtered tens of thousands of the Zaghawa people after seizing the major city of El Fasher. The RSF also has kidnapped thousands of people and held them for ransom, torturing many of them. The RSF has killed at least 250,000 people from non-Arab ethnic groups.
The United Nations says things could get even worse:
The UN’s Volker Turk warned last week that a “catastrophe” is beginning around the city of El-Obeid, where frequent summary executions, abductions, torture and sexual violence are occurring near the city in areas occupied by the RSF.
Sudan is in the midst of a civil war between Sudan’s armed forces, and a militia called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Both sides have killed thousands of civilians using drones. In a village near El-Obeid, an RSF drone killed 65 people at a funeral gathering. Earlier, “a drone attack” by the RSF “hit a kindergarten in” the town of Kalogli in “south-central Sudan, killing 50 people, including 33 children,” reported the Associated Press. Then it returned to kill paramedics at the scene.
Millions of people in Sudan lost power last year due to drone strikes on a key power plant….
Recently, monkeypox spread in the mountains of western Sudan.
Sudan’s civil war has already killed at least 400,000 people.
