Conflict in Sudan: Fighting again just before ceasefire was agreed Annoys Donald Trump with confused look on social media

Just hours before a ceasefire in Sudan that took effect on Monday evening, fighting was still fierce in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Artillery fire was heard on Monday morning.

This is reported by a reporter from the DPA news agency in Khartoum. There were also airstrikes on Sunday night, according to media reports.

Representatives of the Sudanese military and rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to a seven-day ceasefire on Saturday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. While similar agreements have been broken in the past, this time both parties signed the agreement, the US Secretary of State said. In addition, this time a US-Saudi Arabia-backed monitoring mechanism will be set up to report ceasefire violations. Both sides had declared on Sunday that they wanted to abide by the agreement.

In the country on the Horn of Africa, a long-simmering power struggle escalated violently on April 15. The army commanded by de facto president Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is battling the paramilitary forces of his vice president Mohammed Hamdan Daglo. The two generals seized power together in 2021, but later fell apart. (oee/sda/dpa)