Deadly hostilities have entered a third week despite the latest ceasefire, which was formally set to expire at the end of Sunday.
KHARTOUM - Heavy fighting again rocked Sudan's capital Sunday as tens of thousands have fled the bloody turmoil and a former prime minister warned of the "nightmare" risk of a descent into full-scale civil war.
Foreign nations have scrambled to evacuate thousands of their citizens by air, road and sea since the fighting plunged the poverty-stricken country into deadly turmoil on April 15. Sudan's former prime minister Abdalla Hamdok warned that the conflict could deteriorate into one of the world's worst civil wars if not stopped early.
The warring sides have agreed to multiple truces but none has taken hold, as chaos and lawlessness have gripped Khartoum, a city of five million, and other regions. "There is no right to go on fighting for power when the country is falling apart," he told Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television on Saturday.Guterres also said on Twitter that "the UN is scaling up efforts to help people seeking safety in neighbouring countries".At least 20,000 have escaped to Chad, 4,000 to South Sudan, 3,500 to Ethiopia and 3,000 to the Central African Republic, it said.Saudi Arabia said it had taken almost 4,880 people to safety on ships across the Red Sea.
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