Despite warnings of a slide towards catastrophic civil war, Sudan’s opposing armed forces maintained their bloody fight for a third week, accusing one another of new violations of an impending ceasefire.
Since a long-brewing power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted into violence on April 15, hundreds of people have died and thousands have been injured.
Locked in a battle for Khartoum, Sudan’s capital on the Nile, the parties have fought on despite a series of ceasefires secured by mediators including the United States, the latest of which expires at midnight Monday (2200 GMT; 6 a.m. on Monday, May 1, Philippines time).
On Sunday, the Sudanese army claimed to have destroyed RSF convoys heading westward into Khartoum. The RSF claimed that the army had attacked its positions in a number of locations in Khartoum province using artillery and warplanes.
