Sudan's warring generals have pledged to observe a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. It comes as an attempt to pull Africa's third-largest nation back from the abyss. 9News
The claims were immediately undercut by the sound of heavy gunfire and explosions in the capital of Khartoum. Residents said warplanes were flying overhead.
Late on Monday , US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that he had helped broker a new 72-hour ceasefire.The Sudanese military, commanded by General Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the rival Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group led by General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, said on Tuesday they would observe the ceasefire.
Drivers increased the prices, sometimes tenfold, for routes to Port Sudan or the border crossing with Egypt. Food and fuel are leaping in price and harder to find, electricity and internet are cut off in much of the country, and hospitals are near collapse. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a "catastrophic conflagration" that could engulf the whole region.
Britain said on Tuesday that it will run evacuation flights for UK nationals from Sudan from an airfield outside Khartoum. France secured the use of a base on the outskirts of Khartoum to act as an extraction point after intense negotiations with both sides — the military that held the base and the RSF that held the surrounding districts, a French diplomatic official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the operation.
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