Heavy gunfire echoed in the background of live feeds by Arab TV news channels and residents said shooting hadn't ceased, with one saying they'd heard an air strike being carried out in Omdurman, Khartoum's sister city on the opposite bank of the Nile river
Heavy gunfire echoed in the background of live feeds by Arab television news channels and residents told Reuters that shooting had not ceased, with one saying they had heard an air strike being carried out in Omdurman, Khartoum's sister city on the opposite bank of the Nile river.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Japan, said on Tuesday he had telephoned both army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, of the Rapid Support Forces , appealing for the 24-hour ceasefire"to allow the Sudanese to be safely reunited with families" and to provide them with relief.
The source of shooting was unclear, though the RSF accused the military of violating the ceasefire within 15 minutes of it taking effect.Earlier in the day the sounds of warplanes and explosions echoed across Khartoum. Residents in the neighbouring cities of Omdurman and Bahri reported air strikes that shook buildings and anti-aircraft fire. Fighting also raged in the west of the country, the United Nations said.
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