Fighting in Sudan eased and more foreigners and locals fled the capital Khartoum, where marauding combatants created what the WHO said was a 'high risk of biological hazard' by seizing a laboratory that stores measles and cholera pathogens for vaccinations
Official wanted by ICC leaves prison as conditions worsenKHARTOUM, April 25 - Fighting flared anew in Sudan late on Tuesday despite a ceasefire declaration by the warring factions, as a U.N. envoy said the truce was partially holding even though there was no sign that the two sides were ready for serious talks.
U.N. special envoy on Sudan Volker Perthes told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that the ceasefire "seems to be holding in some parts so far." The fighting has turned residential areas into battlefields. Air strikes and artillery have killed at least 459 people, wounded over 4,000, destroyed hospitals and limited food distribution in a nation where a third of its 46 million people rely on food aid.
Haroun and the other released officials served under ex-President Omar al-Bashir who came to power in a 1989 military coup and was ousted in a popular uprising in 2019. The ICC in the Hague has accused Haroun of organising militias to attack civilians in a genocide in Darfur in 2003 and 2004. The whereabouts of Bashir were not immediately clear.
The fighting has paralysed hospitals and other essential services, and left many people stranded in their homes with dwindling supplies of food and water.
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