Conflict in Sudan: Fighting Despite Renewed Ceasefire Why There’s Hope in the US-China Conflict

In Sudan, fighting between two rival military units continued on Tuesday evening despite a renewed ceasefire. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched an attack on an army air base north of the capital Khartoum shortly after the ceasefire began.

That said a reporter from the DPA news agency on the spot. There were also airstrikes and artillery shelling in and around the capital on Tuesday night, according to media reports. In the early morning hours of Tuesday, however, the situation initially appeared calm.

Representatives of the Sudanese army and the RSF agreed on a ceasefire on Saturday. This should happen on Monday at 9:45 PM. Both sides had signed an agreement brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. In the preceding weeks, the ceasefires verbally agreed upon by the military and the RSF had been broken repeatedly.

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 former deputy, Mohammed Hamdan Daglo. The two generals seized power together in 2021, but later fell apart. (aeg/sda/dpa)