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Conflict in Sudan: fighting despite renewed ceasefire
Despite the agreed ceasefire, fighting continues in Sudan – smoke seen here in the capital Khartoum in early May. photo
© Marwan Ali/AP/dpa
Despite the ceasefire, there were attacks during the night. In the morning it seemed calm at first: the fighting in Sudan continued.
In Sudan, fighting between two rival military units continued overnight despite a renewed ceasefire. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched an attack on an army air base north of the capital Khartoum shortly after the ceasefire began, said a reporter from the German Press Agency on site.
According to media reports, there were also air raids and artillery shelling in and around the capital during the night. In the early hours of the morning, however, the situation initially seemed calm.
On Saturday, representatives of the Sudanese army and the RSF agreed on a ceasefire. This should occur on Monday at 9:45 p.m. Both sides had signed an agreement brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. In the weeks before, ceasefires that had been verbally agreed by the army and the RSF had been repeatedly broken.
In the country on the Horn of Africa, a long-simmering power struggle escalated violently on April 15. The army, commanded by de facto President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is fighting the paramilitary forces of his former deputy, Mohammed Hamdan Daglo. The two generals seized power together in 2021, but later fell out.