The Latest Breaking News on Desperate shortages in Khartoum as Sudan battles intensify

The UK Foreign Office said the case was ‘extremely sad’.

Editorial: While the generals wage war, millions are paying the price. The country’s future cannot be safeguarded by strongmen

Reports out of Sudan of continuing violence suggest that the seven-day ceasefire organised during talks in Jeddah – the seventh attempt to end the violence in Sudan – is crumbling. A fighter plane was shot down over Khartoum on May 24 and residents report intense fighting breaking out once again…

Khartoum (AFP) - Fighting eased in Sudan on Wednesday, the second full day of a ceasefire that has allowed beleaguered civilians to venture out, even as they await safe aid corridors and escape routes.

Sudanese refugees are streaming into Chad so quickly that it will be impossible to relocate them all to safer places before the start of the rainy season in late June, a senior Red Cross official said on Tuesday, flagging the risk of a disaster.

Witnesses say clashes and air raids broke out minutes after the latest attempt at a pause in hostilities started.

The U.N. envoy for Sudan is urging the country's warring generals to honor a seven-day cease-fire

The United Nations has called an emergency Security Council meeting on the fighting in Sudan, which has displaced an estimated one million people since it broke out a month ago.

After repeated false starts and failed attempts to achieve a ceasefire, Sudan's rival factions have agreed on a temporary truce.

About 843,000 displaced internally and 250,000 have fled across Sudan’s borders since fighting broke out a month ago.

The chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development traveled on Thursday to Chad, where tens of thousands have fled fighting in neighboring Sudan, to meet with Sudanese refugees and officials, a USAID spokesperson said.