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New 3-day truce in Sudan as airlifts continue
Updated On: 26 April, 2023 08:49 AM IST | Cairo | Agencies
In separate announcements, they said Saudi Arabia played a role in the negotiations
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Citizens of different nationalities fleeing in a Spanish aircraft. Pic/AP
Sudan’s warring generals pledged on Tuesday to observe a new three-day truce that was brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to pull Africa’s third-largest nation back from the abyss. The Sudanese military, commanded by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the rival Rapid Support Forces—a paramilitary group led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo—said on Tuesday they would observe the cease-fire. In separate announcements, they said Saudi Arabia played a role in the negotiations.
However, the claims were immediately undercut by the sound of heavy gunfire and explosions in the capital of Khartoum. Several previous cease-fires declared since the April 15 outbreak of fighting were not observed. In Omdurman—a city across the Nile River from Khartoum—resident Amin Ishaq said there were clashes early on Tuesday around the state television headquarters and around military bases just outside Omdurman.
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