The United States and African nations raced to secure an extension of a ceasefire in Sudan on Thursday, with the Sudanese army saying it had given an initial nod to an African proposal calling for talks even as heavy fighting continued.
At least 512 people have been killed and close to 4,200 wounded by the fighting since April 15.
Thousands of people, mainly Sudanese, have been waiting at the border to cross into Egypt, Sudan's neighbour to the north. Mohammad Al Samman, a Syrian evacuated to Jordan by plane, expressed shock at how the violence had begun suddenly and with such intensity. "I didn't witness this in Syria. With all the war and destruction in Syria, it didn't happen just suddenly,” Al Samman told Reuters after landing in Jordan.The conflict has limited food distribution in the vast nation, Africa's third largest, where a third of the 46 million people were already reliant on humanitarian aid.
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