After a series of Arab and African regional initiatives, and despite several consecutive truces announced, and efforts to stop the ongoing bloodshed through talks hosted by Saudi Arabia and attended by representatives of both parties to the conflict, clashes continue in Sudan, especially in the capital Khartoum between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support forces .
Clashes resumed on Sunday morning in the Sudanese capital Khartoum between the army and the Rapid Support forces, and confrontations broke out in Omdurman as a result of intensive overflight of military aircraft, and explosions were heard in the central and northern neighborhoods of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state.
After months of escalating tensions between the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces Group, violent clashes broke out in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and elsewhere, dealing a new blow to hopes for a transition to democracy and raising fears of a wider conflict and delaying reaching an agreement with political parties to return the country to its short-term transition to democracy.
Reports said that the two parties to the power struggle in Sudan did not abide by the ceasefire, which is scheduled to last for seven days, despite its entry into force hours ago.
Eyewitnesses reported the rise of columns of smoke in the vicinity of the presidential palace, the correspondent of "Radio Sawa" reported.
On Friday, the Sudanese Council of Ministers announced the readiness of Khartoum International Airport, Port Sudan Airport and Port, and Wadi Sedna Airport, to receive incoming humanitarian aid to Sudan, which came after the Jeddah Declaration, on humanitarian affairs, signed between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, yesterday, Thursday.
After representatives from the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support forces arrived in Saudi Arabia for the first face-to-face negotiations, sponsored by both Saudi Arabia and the United States," pre-negotiation talks " between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support forces are scheduled to begin in Jeddah. Several ceasefires have broken down since the fighting began weeks ago.
The head of the National Commission for Human Rights, from Khartoum, stated that the humanitarian conditions are worsening for a large number of the population in the cities of Khartoum, Khartoum North, Omdurman, and areas of the Darfur region, due to the suffering of those cities from an acute shortage of food and medical supplies and potable water, which means Sudan is on the verge of a catastrophic humanitarian situation.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Monday that between 60,000 and 90,000 people have fled Sudan to neighboring Chad since violence erupted last month.
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