Persistent fighting between Sudan's rival generals undermined efforts to firm up a truce on Wednesday.
A burnt-out military vehicle lies abandoned near the presidential palace, one of the main battlegrounds in nearly three weeks of fighting between Sudan's rival generals.KHARTOUM - Persistent fighting between Sudan's rival generals undermined efforts to firm up a truce on Wednesday as a senior UN official arrived for talks on providing relief to millions of trapped civilians.
Deadly violence broke out on April 15 between Sudan's de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who commands the regular army, and his deputy-turned-rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces . Ten of thousands of Sudanese have fled to neighbouring countries in an exodus that has sparked warnings of a humanitarian"catastrophe" with implications for the entire regionOn Wednesday, Griffiths arrived in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast on an urgent mission to look for ways to bring relief to the millions of Sudanese who are unable to flee.
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