Sudan s war has forced 100,000 people to flee across the border and fighting now its third week is creating a humanitarian crisis, U.N. officials said on Tuesday as gunfire and explosions echoed across the capital in violation of another ceasefire.The conflict risks morphing into a broader disaster
KHARTOUM: Sudan’s warring military factions agreed on Tuesday in principle to a seven-day cease-fire from Thursday, South Sudan announced, as more air strikes and shooting in the Khartoum region disrupted the latest short-term truce. A statement released by the foreign ministry of South Sudan, which had offered to mediate in the conflict, said its President Salva Kiir stressed
Foreign countries have carried out their own evacuation effort, with an airlift from outside the capital and long road convoys to Port Sudan where ships have ferried them abroad.
A statement released by the foreign ministry of South Sudan said its President Salva Kiir stressed the importance of a longer truce and of naming envoys to peace talks, to which both sides had agreed.