The Sudanese army and paramilitaries began talks on Saturday in an effort to broker a permanent ceasefire. After more than three weeks of fighting, civilians were able to leave their homes to buy basic necessities.
After more than fighting for three weeks between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR), a tense calm in the city of Khartoum, in the middle of a fragile fileinterrupted only by the sound of sporadic explosions, allowing the Sudanese to return to new normalcy.
The explosions are observed in the Shambat area (north), where there is a paramilitary camp, apparently caused by aerial bombardment and artillery. Likewise, army fighter jets fly over several districts west of the Nile, which divides the capital, as well as over the city of Um Durman, which borders Khartoum.
With regard to the rest of the capital’s districts, they experience a relative calm, what has enabled citizens to leave their homes to meet their basic needs, albeit in the midst of complaints about the high price of food and the lack of cash due to the closure of banks.
In the meantime, The talks that started last Saturday are continuing in the Saudi city of Jeddah between representatives of the army and the paramilitaries in an effort to achieve a permanent ceasefire, although without announcing any progress so far.
Source: EITB
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