defences were at work after explosions were heard. the telegram messaging app. we start in sudan, where two rival military factions have announced a new ceasefire, but are showing few signs that they will honor it. air strikes continued to pound the capital of khartoum on saturday, as more than 500 deaths have been reported, though the true number of casualties is believed to be much higher. the united nations and african union are warning that the people of sudan are in dire need of a humanitarian truce. martin griffiths, the un s emergency relief coordinator, is being sent to sudan along with a special envoy to coordinate humanitarian operations. it s understood many of the aid agency s warehouses were looted by fighting military factions. thousands of people are evacuating on ships to the saudi arabian port city ofjeddah. 0ur africa correspondent andrew harding has recently arrived injeddah, and gave us this update. as the fighting intensifies in khartoum, people are fleeing eith
rival military factions have announced a new ceasefire, but are showing few signs that they will honour it. that they will honour it. air strikes continued to pound the capital of khartoum on saturday, as more than 500 deaths have been reported, though the true number of casualties is believed to be much higher. the united nations has warned that the humanitarian crisis in sudan is at a breaking point. world leaders, including the african union, are calling for a humanitarian pause in the fighting. martin griffiths, the un s emergency relief coordinator, is being sent to sudan along with a special envoy to coordinate humanitarian operations. it s understood many of the aid agency s warehouses were looted by fighting military factions. thousands of people are evacuating on ships to the saudi arabian port city ofjeddah. our africa correspondent andrew harding has recently arrived injeddah, and gave us this update. as the fighting intensifies again in khartoum, people
of khartoum on saturday, as more than 500 deaths have been reported, though the true number of casualties is believed to be much higher. the united nations and african union are warning that the people of sudan are in dire need of a humanitarian truce. martin griffiths, the un s emergency relief coordinator, is being sent to sudan along with a special envoy to coordinate humanitarian operations. it s understood many of the aid agency s warehouses were looted by fighting military factions. thousands of people are evacuating on ships to the saudi arabian port city ofjeddah. our africa correspondent andrew harding has recently arrived injeddah, and gave us this update. as the fighting intensifies in khartoum, people are fleeing either north to egypt, but increasingly fleeing quite a long journey, people talking 16 30 hours to get to the coast, to get to port sudan and then hoping to get on these.
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