Military planes fly over Khartoum and the troops of the two generals in the war for power exchange machine gun and heavy weapon fire .
The deadly fighting between paramilitaries and the army entered its thirteenth day on Thursday in Sudan, where the capital Khartoum and the Darfur region are now in the grip of bomb chaos despite a ceasefire.
Military planes fly over the northern suburbs of Khartoum where troops of the two warring generals exchange machine gun and heavy weapon fire, witnesses tell AFP, despite the 72-hour truce concluded under the aegis of the United States and Saudi Arabia, which began on Tuesday.
Numerous attempts to silence the guns have failed since the start of the conflict on April 15 between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane’s army and the much-feared paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo.
On Wednesday evening, the army announced that it had agreed to send a representative to Juba, the capital of neighboring South Sudan, for talks with the RSF “at the initiative of IGAD”, a regional bloc of East Africa.
General Burhane said he agreed to discuss an extension of the 72-hour truce which is due to end Thursday at midnight and was generally poorly respected.
The paramilitaries did not comment on this regional initiative.
According to the Sudanese Ministry of Health, at least 512 people have been killed and 4,193 injured since the start of the conflict, but the toll is likely much higher.
