More than 180 people have been killed and over 1,800 wounded since the fighting erupted, U.N. envoy Volker Perthes said.
As explosions and gunfire thundered outside, Sudanese in the capital Khartoum and other cities huddled in their homes for a third day Monday, while the army and a powerful rival force battled in the streets for control of the country.
"Gunfire and shelling are everywhere," Awadeya Mahmoud Koko, head of a union for thousands of tea vendors and other food workers, said from her home in a southern district of Khartoum.She said a shell stuck a neighbor's house Sunday, killing at least three people. "We couldn't take them to a hospital or bury them."
The U.S., the U.N. and others have called for a truce. Egypt, which backs Sudan's military, and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - which forged close ties to the RSF in recent years as it sent thousands of fighters to support their war in Yemen - have also called for both sides to stand down.
The military on Monday claimed to have secured the main television building in Omdurman, fending off RSF fighters trying to seize the building for days. State-run Sudan TV resumed broadcasting. But the turmoil since, especially the 2021 coup, has frustrated the democracy drive and wrecked the economy. A third of the population - around 16 million people - now depends on humanitarian assistance in the resource-rich nation, Africa's third largest.
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