The Latest Breaking News from Khartoum

Hundreds of people were told to make own way through ongoing fighting to airbase north of Khartoum

Sudan's warring factions are locked in a conflict that two weeks of fighting shows neither can easily win, raising the spectre of a drawn-out war between an agile paramilitary force and the better-equipped army that could destabilise a fragile region.

Heavy explosions and gunfire rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman, residents said, despite the extension of a fragile truce between the county’s two top generals whose power struggle has left hundreds dead.

Thick smoke has been spotted rising over Khartoum, Sudan as fighting enters a third week and ceasefires come to an end this weekend.

Iran on Saturday hailed Saudi Arabia’s role in evacuating 65 Iranian citizens from conflict-torn Sudan. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that since the onset of the unrest in Sudan, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has deported 65 Iranians stranded in Sudan, and “has taken the necessary arrangements to transfer…

Some 1,573 people on 13 flights have been evacuated from the airfield near the capital of Khartoum but thousands more British citizens may remain.

Air strikes, anti-aircraft weaponry and artillery could be heard in Khartoum as fighting in Sudan enters a third week.

Explosions and gunfire continue despite a 72-hour ceasefire; the UN says violence could escalate in West Darfur.

Air strikes and artillery rocked Khartoum on Saturday as Sudan entered a third week of fighting between rival military forces despite a ceasefire, prompting more civilians to flee and renewed warnings of wider instability if the war is not stopped.

Syrians fled to Sudan to avoid the war in their country. The prospect of going back is not one they want to consider.

Deputy PM to chair Cobra meeting on security situation in Khartoum as UK government prepares to end flights