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The United Nations warned on Friday that it had only received 12 percent of the $2.7 billion being sought for war-wracked Sudan, adding that "famine is closing in". Tens of thousands of people have died and millions have been displaced in Sudan since war broke out in April 2023 between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The United Nations says more than 1.4 million people have fled the country. "It is a catastrophically underfunded appeal," Jens Laerke, spokesman for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told reporters.
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Sudan: mutual bombardment between the army and the Rapid Support, and Al-Burhan pledges to continue progress. Battles have been taking place in Sudan since April 2023. Last Friday, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire during the month of Ramadan. The army indicated that it would not take into account international appeals for a ceasefire unless the Rapidsupport Forces agreed to a major military withdrawal. The Rapid Support Forces bombed central Khartoum and the vicinity of the General Command of the Sudanese Army.
Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the President of the Sudan Transitional Sovereignty Council, departed for an official visit to Egypt on Thursday morning.