The Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said that overnight, as the Eid al-Fitr celebrations marking the end Ramadan began, 'several areas of Khartoum were bombed' and reported 'shelling and clashes' for the sixth straight night.
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Sudan's warring forces battled Friday with heavy gunfire and explosions in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere in the country, as they ignored appeals by world powers for an end-of-Ramadan ceasefire.
Khartoum has seen some of the fiercest fighting with air strikes and tanks firing in densely packed districts, with most of its five million people sheltering at home in baking heat without electricity, food or water. Communications are heavily disrupted. "For Eid this year, our country is bleeding: destruction, desolation and the sound of bullets have taken precedence over joy," he said in a pre-recorded video, which showed him sitting behind a desk in military uniform.
The World Food Programme warned the violence could plunge millions more into hunger in a country where 15 million people, one-third of the population, need aid.Burhan and Daglo's bitter dispute centred on the planned integration of the RSF into the regular army, a key condition for a final deal aimed at restoring Sudan's democratic transition.
Burhan and Daglo toppled autocratic president Omar al-Bashir together in April 2019 following massive protests against his three decades of iron-fisted rule.
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