Both sides are reportedly seeking to control areas of the capital, Khartoum, ahead of possible negotiations. However, leaders of both sides have not publicly indicated their willingness to hold talks after fighting has continued for more than two weeks. NOW.
Heavy shelling also sounded in the nearby towns of Omdurman and Khartoum North, according to Reuters.
Both parties had agreed to extend the armistice for a period of 7 days, but it was broken.
“Since last night and this morning, there have been airstrikes and sounds of clashes,” said Al-Sadiq Ahmed, a 49-year-old engineer from Khartoum.
He added that they are in a permanent state of panic as the fighting is taking place around the centers of the residential areas.
“We don’t know when this nightmare and this fear will end,” he added.
The United Nations urged both sides in the conflict on Wednesday to ensure safe passage for humanitarian aid after six trucks carrying humanitarian supplies were looted and airstrikes in Khartoum again undermined the truce.
Martin Griffiths, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said he hoped to meet with both sides in the conflict within two or three days to get assurances from them that convoys of aid could deliver humanitarian supplies.
The United Nations warns that the fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which broke out on April 15, threatens a humanitarian catastrophe that could spread to other countries.
Sudan said on Tuesday that since its outbreak, the conflict has claimed 550 lives and injured 4,926.
According to the United Nations, around 100,000 people have fled Sudan to neighboring countries with little food or water.
The Sudanese army said it killed members of the Rapid Support Forces and destroyed “a number of rebel combat vehicles” after clashes between them in the Bahri military zone.
The army and the RSF joined forces in a coup two years ago, sharing power in an internationally-backed transition to free elections and civilian government, before falling out.
The RSF accused the army of violating the truce and attacking the forces since dawn. He said the army had attacked the Rapid Support Forces residential areas with artillery and aircraft, “in a cowardly manner”.
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