Heavy clashes and artillery fire have erupted across Sudan's capital Khartoum and residents reported air strikes soon after the end of a 24-hour ceasefire that had brought a brief lull to eight weeks of fighting.
Telephone service remains largely cut.
Just after the ceasefire expired at 06:00 witnesses said clashes and artillery fire resumed in the north of Omdurman. They also reported clashes in southern and central Khartoum, and in Shambat along the Nile in Bahri up to the strategic Halfiya bridge, which crosses to Omdurman. This picture released on the Sudanese Army's Facebook page shows army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan cheering with soldiers as he visits some of their positions in Khartoum.The conflict has killed hundreds of civilians and displaced more than 1.9 million, triggering a major humanitarian crisis that threatens to spill across a volatile region.
Among those killed were a number of human rights activists, lawyers and doctors, according to the Darfur Bar Association, which monitors the conflict in the region.Sudanese army soldiers, loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, pose for a picture at the Rapid Support Forces base in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan.
Some 400 000 of those who have fled their homes have crossed into neighbouring countries, about half of them heading north to Egypt.
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