The Latest Breaking News from Khartoum

Heavy air raids and looting reported in central Khartoum as truce talks in Jeddah target a short-term ceasefire.

Fighting in Sudan's capital escalated on Wednesday with fierce clashes and air strikes, but rival military factions were reported to be close to a ceasefire agreement in talks in Saudi Arabia.

At least 100 animals, all kept inside enclosures, will have gone more than three weeks without food or water, said the head zoologist at the zoo.

When conflict flared in Khartoum almost a month ago, pitting Sudan's armed forces and their heavy weaponry against a paramilitary force born out of an agile but lightly-armed desert militia, it looked like it might prove a one-sided fight.

Dozens of zoo animals in Sudan's capital are feared dead after street battles between the country’s rival forces made the location unreachable

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says no settlement with RSF without a permanent ceasefire in Khartoum.

Despite a shaky truce declared in Sudan until May 11, the violence has continued, endangering civilians who were already facing shortages of medical care, basic necessities, water, and electricity. In response, citizen solidarity movements are emerging both on the ground and on social networks in an attempt to assist the…

Charities say British government not doing enough to facilitate family reunions through available safe and legal route

Ceasefire talks are taking place in Saudi Arabia while fighting continues in Khartoum.

After sleeping for a week under a tree in the backyard of a mosque in the Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa, Dalia Hassan is torn over whether she should cross the frontier into Egypt, or wait until her 18-year-old son gets a visa.

The RSF has reportedly embedded itself in residential areas by turning flats and even hospitals into military outposts.