Shelling and gunfire resumed on Sunday in the Sudanese capital, witnesses said, after the end of a 24-hour ceasefire that gave civilians a brief respite from nearly two months of war.
since mid-April, when army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, turned on each other.enabled civilians trapped in the capital Khartoum to venture outside and stock up on food and other essential supplies.
But just ten minutes after it ended at 6:00 am local time, the capital was rocked again by shelling and clashes, witnesses told French news agency AFP. The one-day lull was"like a dream" that evaporated, said Nasreddin Ahmed, a resident of south Khartoum who was awoken by the fighting. Asmaa al-Rih, who lives in the capital's northern suburbs, lamented the"return of terror" with"rockets and shells shaking the walls of houses" once again.
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