Sudan's rival military forces accused each other of fresh violations of a ceasefire that is set to expire soon as their deadly conflict continued for a third week despite warnings of a slide towards catastrophic civil war.
Saudi Royal Navy officials help civilians onboard their ship to be evacuated to Saudi Arabia from Sudan to escape the conflicts, in Port Sudan, Sudan, April 30, 2023. REUTERS/ Mohammed Benmansour
Locked in a battle for Khartoum, Sudan's capital on the Nile, the parties have fought on despite a series of ceasefires secured by mediators including the United States, the latest of which expires at midnight Monday . The Central Reserve Police is a large and heavily-armed division of Sudan's police force that has fighting experience from conflicts in the western region of Darfur and in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan.
It has also derailed an internationally-backed political transition aimed at establishing democratic government in Sudan, where former autocratic President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was toppled in 2019 after three decades in power.Army leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has said he would never sit down with General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti. The RSF chief in turn said he would talk only after the army ceased hostilities.
Foreign nationals have fled in one of the largest such evacuations since US-led forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
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