The Latest Breaking News from Sudan

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Countries scrambled to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from the Sudanese capital on Saturday and Sunday.

“She doesn’t know what to do anymore, she’s exhausted,” Trillian Clifford’s sister-in-law tells The Independent

In the Sudanese capital, charred paramilitary pick-up trucks hit by air strikes litter main streets and weary residents queue for bread in neighbourhoods largely emptied of civilian life.

Harrowing conditions have triggered a mass exodus and transformed Khartoum into what feels like a ghost town.

Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others trapped in Sudan on Sunday as rival generals battled for a ninth day. Fighting raged in Omdurman, a city across the Nile from Khartoum, residents said, despite a hoped-for cease-fire to coincide with the three-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. More than 420…

Foreign secretary warns government is ‘severely limited’ in its ability to help British nationals

Heavy fighting in Sudan, which has plunged the nation into chaos and killed hundreds, has also raised fears about the fate of 25 lions and other animals in a wildlife reserve. The facility said it is without electricity to power safety fences around enclosures and running low on food for…

Several countries have launched operations to evacuate their diplomatic staff and other nationals from Sudan.

An Iraqi citizen was killed in Sudan on Sunday amid the fighting there, according to Iraq's state news agency, which cited a foreign ministry spokesperson.

The conflict in my birth country has its roots in a power struggle that began with the Darfur genocide 20 years ago, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik