In the Khartoum region, explosions, heavy gunfire and explosions rocked residential neighborhoods. Plumes of smoke rose over Bahri.
“We hear sounds of planes and explosions. We don’t know when this hell will end,” said Bahri resident Mahasin Al-Awad, 65.
“We are in a constant state of fear for ourselves and our children,” she added.
The Sudanese army directs airstrikes with fighter jets or drones towards the Rapid Support Forces deployed in the districts of the capital, where many inhabitants suffer from difficulties in obtaining food, fuel, water and electricity.
In a statement, the Rapid Support Forces accused the army of violating a truce agreement brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia by launching airstrikes on its bases in Omdurman, the city opposite Khartoum. on the other side of the Nile, and Mount Awliya. .
The army accuses the RSF of having violated the armistice agreement.
The ceasefire is supposed to last until midnight on Sunday.
Sudan… between the hammer of the army and the anvil of rapid support
Despite global calls for talks, army chief Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says sitting down with Rapid Support Forces chief Mohamed Hamdan is unacceptable Dagalo, whom he described as “the leader of the rebellion”. Dagalo, known as Hemedti, said the RSF would not hold talks until the fighting was over. He said the armed forces bombarded his fighters relentlessly and blamed Al-Burhan for the violence. “Stop the fighting. Then we can have negotiations,” Dagalo said.
Deaths in Darfur
A spokeswoman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ravina Shamdasani, said at least 96 people have been killed in Darfur since Monday in tribal violence sparked by the conflict between the army and the Security Forces. quick support. He added that the release of prisoners or their escape from at least eight prisons, including five in Khartoum and two in Darfur, has exacerbated the chaos. The charity Doctors Without Borders said a major hospital it supports in El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state, had been looted in the past two days. The UN said its offices in Khartoum, El Geneina and Nyala were also ransacked. “This is unacceptable and prohibited by international humanitarian law. Attacks on humanitarian facilities must stop,” UN aid coordinator Martin Griffiths wrote on Twitter. Aid agencies have been largely unable to deliver food to people in need in Africa’s third-largest country, where a third of its 46 million people already depend on humanitarian aid.
Refugees as evacuation flights continue
The violence has pushed tens of thousands of refugees across Sudan’s borders and threatened to exacerbate instability in a volatile region of Africa between the Sahel and the Red Sea. Country governments have transported diplomats and citizens to other safe areas over the past week. Britain said evacuations would end on Saturday as demand for airspace dwindled. The United States said several hundred Americans left Sudan by land, sea and air. The New York Times reported that a bus convoy carrying 300 Americans left Khartoum on Friday evening for a 525-mile journey to the Red Sea, the first evacuation effort organized by the United States for citizens. Egypt said it had taken in 16,000 people, while Chad took in 20,000, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said more than 14,000 people had crossed into South Sudan, which declared independence from Khartoum in 2011 after decades of civil war. A spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said some had walked more than 400 km from Khartoum to the South Sudanese border. Khartoum is one of Africa’s largest cities and has long been spared the horrors of a series of civil wars in Sudan.
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