Taking advantage of the tentative cease-fire in Sudan, Britain has announced that air force planes will start evacuating its citizens from the capital, Khartoum.
The deal that brought the government to power appears to have collapsed,
That child died, he said, and the other two were shot in the legs. Drawing on his days as a pro-democracy activist, he tried to staunch the blood with a shirt. “I’ve never seen someone just shoot kids like this,” he said. “But this is what we expect in the future. There’s a lot of weapons and ammunition being taken, and we have almost 20,000 prison inmates released.”Some of Sudan’s biggest jails have released their prisoners because they cannot feed them or shells have slammed into prisons.
Tagreed Abdin, an architect, said there had been some shelling and gunfire in her neighborhood around 9 a.m., but it quieted later. A neighbor was killed by shelling a couple of days ago, she said, but the family were staying.“The roads aren’t safe. Even when there are proclaimed cease-fires, some people are attacked,” she said.
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