Sudan Conflict: Heavy clashes in capital as truce set to expire
Gunshots and artillery fire rocked the Sudan's capital yesterday, residents said, hours before the expiry of a shaky ceasefire deal that had brought some respite from a six-week-old conflict but little humanitarian access.
Fighting continued from Sunday into yesterday in the south and west of Omdurman, one of three adjoining cities that make up Sudan's greater capital. Across the River Nile in southern Khartoum residents also reported clashes late on Sunday.
Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a power struggle that erupted into conflict on April 15. Nearly 1.4 million people have now been displaced, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a new report.
Both sides have said they are considering extending a deal for a week-long ceasefire brokered by Saudi Arabia and the United States that was designed to allow for the distribution of aid and was due to expire at 9:45 pm (19:45 GMT) local time yesterday.
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