Sudan’s warring generals agreed to a new 72-hour truce to take place from Sunday, US and Saudi mediators said, after fighting intensified with deadly airstrikes in Khartoum and an exodus of wounded from Darfur over the border into Chad.
Sudan’s warring generals agreed to a new 72-hour truce to take place from Sunday, US and Saudi mediators said, after fighting intensified with deadly airstrikes in Khartoum and an exodus of wounded from Darfur over the border into Chad.
Airstrikes killed 17 civilians, including five children, in the capital on Saturday, a citizens’ group said, while medics in Chad reported hundreds of wounded from Darfur seeking treatment.
Multiple truces have been agreed and broken during the two-month war, including after the United States slapped sanctions on both generals when a previous attempt collapsed at the end of May.
A 24-hour ceasefire from 10 June to 11 June provided Khartoum residents with a brief respite from the airstrikes and artillery exchanges that have ravaged whole neighbourhoods of the capital. But the fighting resumed within 10 minutes of the ceasefire ending.
