The Latest Breaking News from Khartoum

In today’s newsletter: Amid gunsmoke and airstrikes, civilians must choose whether to travel towards uncertain safety, or risk violence by staying behind. What questions face anyone trying to leave – and what might happen if they go?

Sudan's army and a paramilitary force battled on Khartoum's outskirts on Wednesday, undermining a truce in their 11-day conflict, but the army expressed willingness to extend the ceasefire.

A US-brokered ceasefire between Sudan's warring generals entered its second day Wednesday but remained fragile after witnesses reported fresh air strikes and paramilitaries claimed to have seized a major oil refinery. As combat eased, foreign governments organised civilian evacuations. Around 245 French and foreign nationals evacuated from Sudan landed in…

‘A lot of people are kind of just doomed. There’s no way they can escape’

Andrew Mitchell has said that the position in terms of food and the lack of humanitarian relief workers will lead to such a crisis

Thousands of refugees face transport chaos, cash shortages, scammers and visa delays as they race to escape to neighbouring countries

Eibhlin Priestley and her partner travelled through areas hit by some of the fiercest fighting to reach safety

UN envoy to Sudan says that both sides in the conflict believe that ‘a military victory over the other is possible’.

Three flights carrying British nationals are due to have left war-torn Khartoum by Wednesday morning.

It's estimated around 4,000 UK passport holders are stranded in the east African country after fighting broke out earlier this month between the Sudanese army and rebel Rapid Support Forces

Some fear fighting between rival military leaders in Sudan that has turned Khartoum into a war zone could reawaken war in the desert region of Darfur.