Sudan fighting: No talks until bombing stops. Hemedti tells BBC

One of Sudan's duelling generals, who leads the paramilitary unit warring the country's army, has told the BBC helium volition not negociate until warring ends.

But Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, amended known arsenic Hemedti, said his fighters were being "relentlessly" bombed since a three-day truce had been extended.

"We don't privation to destruct Sudan," helium said, blaming service main Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan for the violence.

Gen Burhan has tentatively agreed to face-to-face talks successful South Sudan.

Thursday night's hold of an uneasy ceasefire followed intensive diplomatic efforts by neighbouring countries, arsenic good arsenic the US, UK and UN.

Hemedti said helium was unfastened to talks but the information was that the ceasefire should hold: "Cease hostilities. After that we tin person negotiations."

He said helium had nary idiosyncratic occupation with Gen Burhan, but regarded him arsenic a traitor for bringing into authorities those loyal to erstwhile President Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted by the service and RSF unneurotic successful 2019 aft wide thoroughfare protests.

Bashir's authorities - successful powerfulness for 3 decades - was known for its Islamist ideology and imposition of a strict mentation of Sharia (Islamic law).

"Unfortunately Burhan is being led by the extremist Islamic beforehand leaders," Hemedti said.

In 2021, helium and Gen Burhan overturned an statement to stock powerfulness with civilians, taking afloat power successful a coup.

They fell retired this twelvemonth implicit the projected instrumentality to civilian rule, successful peculiar astir the timeframe of incorporating Hemedti's 100,000-strong Rapid Support Force's (RSF) inclusion into the army.

"I americium looking guardant to having the civilian authorities contiguous - earlier tomorrow, a afloat civilian government. This is my principle," Hemedti told the BBC.

This is not the archetypal clip the RSF person has spoken of his committedness to democracy, though analysts constituent retired that his forces person brutally enactment down civilian protests successful the past.

Hemedti told the BBC that his RSF fighters were not the enemies of the subject soldiers, explaining they were battling to support the state from "the relics of the authorities of the past 30 years".

"We won't combat you. Please spell backmost to your service divisions and we won't combat you."

Hemedti's comments to the BBC travel arsenic millions stay trapped successful the superior Khartoum, wherever determination are shortages of food, h2o and fuel.

In immoderate parts of the city, trenches person been dug arsenic rival troops conflict each different thoroughfare by street, AFP reports.

The UN says RSF troops are forcing radical from their homes and looting and extortion is taking place.

However, Hemedti told the BBC his rivals were dressing up successful RSF uniforms successful bid to discredit his fighters.

He categorically denied engagement successful looting and taking implicit hospitals, saying his troops were trying to assistance residents of a metropolis reeling from fierce clashes that began 14 days ago.

"My squad is moving connected the h2o and energy supplies for the areas we control. Unfortunately each the technicians and engineers person disappeared. And this is our main problem," helium said.

At slightest 512 radical person been killed and 4,193 wounded successful the fighting, according to wellness ministry figures, though the existent decease toll is apt overmuch higher.

The UN says hundreds of thousands of Sudanese person present fled their homes, often paying immense sums to permission and facing abuses en route.

As good arsenic the thousands of foreigners who person been evacuated, tens of thousands of Sudanese person crossed into neighbouring countries, including Chad, Egypt and South Sudan.

Reuters reports a UN authoritative arsenic saying immoderate person walked from Khartoum to South Sudan's border, a region of much than 400km (250 miles).

Earlier a Turkish evacuation level was changeable at arsenic it was landing astatine an airdrome extracurricular Khartoum. No-one was injured and the RSF denied accusations by the service that it was involved.

Those remaining successful Khartoum picture surviving successful a "constant authorities of fear".

"We perceive the sounds of planes and explosions. We don't cognize erstwhile this hellhole volition end," 65-year-old Mahasin al-Awad, a nonmigratory of Bahri, a bluish country of Khartoum, told Reuters.

Violence is reported to person been peculiarly atrocious successful El Geneina, a metropolis successful Darfur successful occidental Sudan, wherever the RSF and militias linked to the radical are reported to person looted and torched markets, assistance warehouses and banks.