TRIPOLI, May 31 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The Libyan Foreign Ministry disclosed Tuesday that a building of its embassy in Khartoum, Sudanese capital, was attacked and looted by unknown elements.
After expressing its displeasure for such act, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Libya called on the parties in conflict in Sudan not to practice violence and to protect diplomatic representations, as established by the Vienna Convention.
Five days ago, the foreign ministry of Libya condemned an attack in Khartoum against the office of the Libyan military attaché, an act it considered criminal.
According to the digital portal Africa News, other countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, also condemned the assaults against diplomatic headquarters in Sudan.
Both Libya and other states reiterated several times their call to put an end to the conflict in Sudan, which broke out last April 15 with clashes between the national army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi on Tuesday has warned that the earlier estimate of around one million people fleeing the nation due to the Sudan War by October is potentially an underestimation.
After touring part of the Sudanese-Egyptian border, Grandi also said that the escalating conflict could lead to increased human trafficking and arms proliferation throughout the fragile region.
Amid such a conflict between the Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, human trafficking and weapons trade in Sudan could increase.
According to humanitarian organizations, countries hosting Sudanese refugees include Egypt, Chad and South Sudan.
Reports from medical sources have estimated that civilian deaths in Sudan are close to 1,000, among them 190 children, with over 6,000 wounded and manifold missing and displaced people. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
