Ankara confirmed a Turkish evacuation plane had been fired at and said there were no injuries. Read more at straitstimes.com.
But fighting flared in parts of the capital Khartoum on Friday, according to eyewitnesses and live video broadcasts.
“Our forces have remained strictly committed to the humanitarian truce that we agreed upon since midnight, and it is not true that we targeted any aircraft in the sky of Wadi Seyidna in Omdurman,” the RSF said in a statement.The fighting between the army and the RSF erupted on April 15 and disabled an internationally backed transition to democracy.Heavy gunfire and detonations rattled residential neighbourhoods of the capital region where fighting has been concentrated over the past week.
“The situation this morning is very scary. We hear the sounds of planes and explosions. We don’t know when this hell will end,” said Bahri resident Mr Mahasin al-Awad, 65.Sudan ceasefire faces obstacles as former regime members escape prison In a statement on Friday, the RSF accused the army of violating a US- and Saudi-brokered truce pact by carrying out air strikes on its bases in Omdurman, Khartoum’s sister city across the Nile, and Mount Awliya.
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