Sudan crisis: Air strikes and fighting in Khartoum as truce collapses

Fighting has intensified successful Sudan's capital, Khartoum, shattering the latest ceasefire aimed astatine allowing radical to fly to safety.

On Sunday the service said it was attacking the metropolis from each directions, with aerial strikes and dense artillery, to flush retired its paramilitary rivals.

The latest truce was owed to extremity precocious connected Sunday. Millions stay trapped successful the capital, wherever nutrient is moving short.

Foreign countries person been evacuating their nationals amid the chaos.

More than 500 radical person been reported killed since warring erupted connected April 15 betwixt the regular service and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). But the fig of dormant and injured whitethorn beryllium overmuch higher.

Army commandant Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF main Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, amended known arsenic Hemedti, are vying for powerfulness - and disagree successful peculiar astir plans to see the RSF into the army.

Thursday night's statement to widen an uneasy ceasefire followed intensive diplomatic efforts by neighbouring countries, the US, UK and UN. But the 72-hour hold has not held.

By Saturday evening, dense warring had resumed successful Khartoum. The service said it had conducted operations against RSF troops northbound of the metropolis centre.

Eyewitnesses told Reuters quality bureau that service drones had targeted RSF presumption adjacent a large lipid refinery.

"We woke up erstwhile again to the dependable of combatant jets and anti-aircraft weapons blasting each implicit our neighbourhood," 1 nonmigratory told AFP quality bureau connected Sunday.

BBC diplomatic analogous Paul Adams, who is monitoring events from Nairobi successful Kenya, says the service volition find it hard to expel the RSF from Khartoum.

For each the army's superior firepower, the RSF are highly mobile and much suited to municipality warfare, our analogous adds.

A US-organised convoy has reached Port Sudan to evacuate much US citizens by vessel to Jeddah successful Saudi Arabia. It said hundreds of Americans had already left, successful summation to the diplomats evacuated by aerial a week ago.

Speaking successful Nairobi, helium said: "I deliberation it volition beryllium a nightmare for the world. This is not a warfare betwixt an service and tiny rebellion. It is astir similar 2 armies."

Meanwhile, determination are chaotic scenes successful Port Sudan wherever radical are hopeless to committee ships, immoderate of which are heading to Saudi Arabia and Yemen.