Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Tuesday as fighting that has claimed nearly 200 lives entered a fourth day, despite growing international calls for an end to hostilities.
A weeks-long power struggle erupted into deadly violence Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces .
But despite their call for the warring parties to"end hostilities immediately", loud explosions were heard on Tuesday morning in Khartoum, where militiamen in turbans and fatigues roamed the streets.Terrified residents of the capital are spending the last and holiest days of Ramadan watching from their windows as tanks roll through the streets, buildings shake and smoke from fires triggered by the fighting hangs in the air.
A satellite image taken on April 17, 2023 shows an Il-76 transport aircraft burned at Khartoum International AirportUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had spoken with the two generals and"underscored the urgent need for a ceasefire". A composite picture shows General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo Both claim to be in control of key sites, including the airport and the presidential palace -- none of which could be independently verified.Volker Perthes, the head of the UN mission to Sudan, told the Security Council in a closed-door session Monday that at least 185 people had been killed and another 1,800 wounded.
The World Health Organization warned that several Khartoum hospitals"have run out of blood, transfusion equipment, intravenous fluids and other vital supplies".In the western region of Darfur, international medical aid organisation Doctors Without Borders reported receiving 183 wounded patients at the only hospital in El Fasher still operating in North Darfur state, 25 of whom it said had died.
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