The United Nations said on Wednesday more than half Sudan's population now needed aid and protection, as civilians sought shelter from air strikes and sporadic clashes between rival military factions in the Khartoum area.
Residents said power had been cut, food was in short supply, and drinking water scarce due to the violent power struggle, now in its second month despite international mediation efforts.
"There is no electricity, no water at all, and even the bread we used to get in the first days of the war, we can’t get now. We can't move out," he said. Talks mediated by the United States and Saudi Arabia in Jeddah have so far failed to secure a ceasefire. "We're living in very difficult conditions, there are daily clashes and air strikes, and power cuts," said Saad Eldin Youssef, a 45-year-old resident of Omdurman, a city across the Nile from Khartoum.
With aid agencies unable to access the capital, the distribution of medical aid, food and fuel in the Khartoum area has fallen to local groups known as resistance committees which had led protests against the military over the past several years.
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