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Sudan’s armed forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have agreed to a new 72-hour ceasefire across Sudan, brokered by the US and Saudi Arabia, hours after a deadly strike killed 17, including 5 children.
At least seventeen people, including five children, have been killed in an airstrike in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, as fighting intensifies between rival generals seeking control of the country.
The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children including 270,000 in the Darfur region, the United Nations children's agency said, warning many more were at "grave risk".
West Darfur state governor has been killed after publicly blaming the deaths of civilians on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as the conflict spreads in the African nation.
Sudan's capital city and adjacent areas have been scene of heavy clashes following the expiry of a 24-hour ceasefire between the country's army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Sudan's government has declared the UN Envoy Volker Perthes "persona non grata" two weeks after the army chief accused him of fueling the country's internal conflicts and called for his removal.
Sudan's army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have resumed fighting in the capital Khartoum after expiration of a temporary ceasefire, which entered into force last month.
The Sudanese Red Crescent has declared the continuous fighting in Sudan's troubled areas of capital Khartoum and Darfur has led volunteers to bury 180 bodies recovered from combat zones without identifying them.
Sudan's warring parties have clashed in the capital overnight and into Friday morning after the failure to maintain a ceasefire and ease the humanitarian crisis, which was worsened by the US sanctions.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated that the United States could intervene in Sudan where rival factions are fighting for control of the capital Khartoum.