Sudan: violence resumes after the failure of the truce

The warring Sudanese parties clashed in the capital overnight and into the morning after the failure to maintain a ceasefire for an easing of the humanitarian crisis, aggravated by American sanctions.

Residents of Khartoum and nearby Omdurman say the army has resumed aerial operations and is using more artillery as clashes continue, but there are no signs the enemy has withdrawn from the streets of the city and the houses he occupied.

“We suffer so much from this war. Since this morning, there are sounds of violence. We live in terror. It's a real nightmare," said Shehab al-Din Abdalrahman, 31, in a southern district of the capital.

Seven weeks of fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have crushed parts of central Khartoum, destabilized the entire region, displaced 1.2 million people inside Sudan and sent 400 000 others in neighboring countries.

The United States and Saudi Arabia suspended ceasefire talks on Thursday after a brokered truce they brokered that barred the sides from occupying homes, businesses and hospitals failed. , and to carry out air strikes and military operations.

According to a senior US official, Washington imposed sanctions on military and FSR-owned companies and threatened further action if the parties continued to destroy their own country.

Sudan's Ambassador to Washington, Mohamed Abdallah Idris, said the government and military are fully committed to the ceasefire agreement and any sanctions should be applied to the side that fails to live up to its commitments. Both sides accused each other of violating the ceasefire.

Since the overthrow of longtime Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir in 2019, the Sudanese government has been led by a ruling council headed by army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and FSR chief Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. , known as Hemedti, as his deputy.

After they entered the war on April 15, Burhan said he removed Hemedti from the council and military-aligned government departments.The development comes as the Sudanese army and RSF paramilitaries agreed to a truce last month. The two sides had agreed to a ceasefire mediated by Saudi Arabia and the United States on May 20. But since then, they have raped him many times.

On Wednesday, the Sudanese military suspended its participation in Saudi-backed talks with the RSF to end months of fighting.Despite peace efforts, fighting continued unabated in the African country, with the army and the RSF blaming each other for truce violations.