MSF has warned that it may suspend its operations in Sudan The International Medical Aid Organization (MSF) revealed yesterday that one of i...

MSF has warned that it may suspend its operations in Sudan

The International Medical Aid Organization (MSF) revealed yesterday that one of its teams had been attacked in Khartoum, Sudan, and that as a result, it might cease operating in one of the few remaining tiny hospitals in the city.

As 18 MSF employees were delivering supplies to the Turkish Hospital in Khartoum on Thursday of this week, some armed men beat them and threatened to kill one of them, according to the medical aid organization.

One of the two hospitals still operating in Khartoum's south, according to the National Medical Association, is the Turkish hospital.

The Rapid Support Forces, who have been engaged in combat with the regular army since April 15, hold a portion of the city where both hospitals are located, he continued.

Over 3.3 million people have been displaced by the war that the generals are waging and at least 3,000 people have died. The heaviest violence was concentrated in Khartoum and the western part of Darfur.

The MSF team was "attacked by a group of people armed with bad weapons, they were beaten with whips," the group in Geneva claimed following a discussion on the circumstances surrounding their attempt to access the Turkish hospital.