Around 25 people have drowned in Sudan's southeast while trying to flee fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces, a pro-democracy activists' committee said Thursday. 'Around 25 citizens, most of them women and children, have died in a boat sinking' while crossing the Blue Nile River in the southeastern state of Sennar, the local resistance committee said in a statement. Read More: Over half of Sudanese face ‘acute food insecurity’- UN, Sudan one of world’s ‘worst crises’ in decades: medical charity The committee is one of hundreds across Sudan that used to organise pro-democracy protests and have coordinated frontline
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