The Latest Breaking News from Sudan

The Hindu’s Morning Digest brings readers a select list of stories to start the day

Countries are rushing to get their citizens in Sudan to safety as battles continue around the army's headquarters and the airport in the capital Khartoum.

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

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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…

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