Our four South Sudanese sisters working in Khartoum have also had to leave the capital of Sudan together with other foreign missionaries, temporarily but very fraternally welcomed by the Bishop of Djibouti, Mgr Giorgio Bertin, of the Franciscan Friars Minor.
For weeks now, Sudan, at the centre of the Horn of Africa, has been plunged into a serious political crisis: two generals and their armies have been fighting each other for political and especially economic power in the country.
The rivalry between the two generals also concerns the friendship they both boast with Moscow and the conflict between the West and Russia to prevent Moscow from establishing a military base on the Red Sea.
Sudan is a very poor country, which depends on humanitarian aid for one third of its livelihood. And it has not yet managed to free itself from the military power and political and economic interests that drive it, including control of most of Sudan’s gold mines. Therein lies the cause of the armed clashes of recent weeks.
