Sudan humanitarian toll rises with no end in sight after 6 months of war

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Men sit and lie outside tents and shelters pitched at the Hasahisa Secondary School, which has been made into a make-shift camp to house the internally displaced fleeing violence in war-torn Sudan on July 10, 2023. PHOTO | AFP

Six months since civil war broke out in Sudan, there is no sign of respite as political factions dig in and violence escalates.

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (Acled), a data portal on conflict locations, events and fatalities, says recent months have seen increased political violence in Sudan, with factions initially out of the conflict taking sides.