“The growing ethnic dimension of the conflict threatens to plunge the country into a protracted conflict, with its repercussions spreading across the region,” Volker Berthes said in a statement to the UN Security Council against the Support Forces fast.
Reuters quotes witnesses as saying that the Sudanese army also carried out airstrikes on the evening of the eve of the truce, targeting vehicles of mobile units belonging to the Rapid Support Forces deployed in residential areas of the capital since the outbreak of the conflict between the two evenings on April 15.
Both sides said they would abide by the ceasefire, which begins at 9:45 p.m. local time (1945 GMT). Although fighting has continued under previous ceasefire agreements, this is the first truce formally reached following negotiations. The agreement rekindled hopes for an end to the war that displaced nearly 1.1 million people, including more than 250,000. They fled to neighboring countries, threatening to destabilize the volatile region.
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