Fighting continues in the northeastern African state of Sudan. An end to the violence is still not in sight: Saturday the third ceasefire since the fighting started failed. In addition, airstrikes in the capital Khartoum intensified on Wednesday.
This was reported by a dpa reporter on site more gunfire was also heard on the fifth day of fighting. As early as Tuesday evening, hopes of a possible 24-hour ceasefire, previously announced by representatives of the warring factions, had been dashed.
Two generals battle for supremacy
It was the third failed ceasefire since fighting began on Saturday. In the politically unstable country for years, the two most powerful generals and their units fight for supremacy. The two men have led the gold- and oil-rich country of about 46 million people since a joint military coup in 2021. De facto President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the army’s commander-in-chief, is battling his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the leader of the mighty Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Ceasefire failed
The paramilitary group RSF accused the Sudanese army at 6:14 p.m. on Tuesday of “violating the ceasefire agreed through international mediation”. “In the first hours of the declared ceasefire” there were attacks on RSF troops, it said. This information could not be independently verified.
Agreed three-hour ceasefires had already failed on Sunday and Monday. Thousands of citizens are therefore trapped in their apartments and houses, often without electricity and with no way to get food, water or medicine, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said.
At least 270 people have been killed and about 2,600 injured since the outbreak of fighting, according to the United Nations.
Source: Krone
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