Sudan's army and a rival paramilitary force have agreed to extend a truce by 72 hours, but heavy gunfire and detonations continue to rattle residential neighborhoods of the capital.
The regular army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) issued statements accusing each other of failing to respect the ceasefire. The army s high command said it would continue operations to secure the capital and other regions
who people have been talking to since early morning, that they ve been hearing these fighterjets, heavy gunfire and explosions, particularly in the capital, khartoum. and this is happening in residential areas. we ve seen pictures, footage coming in from the area, showing tanks firing against each other in the capital. and also the fighting has extended to other parts in the port city of port sudan and also in parts of omdurman, just across the river nile, and also in the town of bari and also in darfur, which is a restive region. so, there is a lot of concern, particularly from the international community, that the fighting that started yesterday is escalating despite this huge international pressure to try and de escalate, to try and bring the two warring factions in the military to talk and to stop the fighting. and you mentioned these talks that had been going on about the transition to civilian rule. there had been a framework agreed, hadn t there? there have been.
calling for a halt to military escalation and a return to the framework agreement. the sudanese telecom provider mtn says it s blocked internet services following orders from the authorities. violence was reported around the country, with eyewitness accounts of sudanese army air strikes in the city of omdurman. the target is a base belonging to the rsf paramilitary group, north east of the capital khartoum. the bbc s emmanuel igunza from nairobi gave me this update. this is the second day of heavy fighting between the national army and the paramilitary group the rapid support forces. we do understand from people we have been talking to since early morning that they have been hearing these fighterjets, heavy gunfire and explosions, particularly in the capital, khartoum, and we have seen footage coming in from the area showing
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