Strikes by air, tanks and artillery rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and the adjacent city of Bahri on Friday, witnesses said, mocking a 72-hour truce extension announced by the army and a rival paramilitary force. | Reuters
“We hear the sounds of planes and explosions. We don’t know when this hell will end,” said Bahri resident Mahasin al-Awad, 65. “We’re in a constant state of fear.”
The RSF accused the army of violating an internationally brokered ceasefire with air strikes on its bases in Omdurman, Khartoum’s sister city at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers, and Mount Awliya.The violence has sent tens of thousands of refugees across Sudan’s borders and threatens to compound instability across a volatile swathe of Africa between the Sahel and the Red Sea.
Releases and escapes from at least eight jails, including five in Khartoum and two in Darfur, were compounding chaos, she added. The United Nations said its offices in Khartoum, El Geneina and Nyala were also ransacked. “This is unacceptable – and prohibited under international humanitarian law. Attacks on humanitarian assets must stop,” U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths posted on Twitter.
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