Heavy gunfire in Sudan as Eid ceasefire calls ignored
Khartoum has seen some of the fiercest fightings with air strikes and tanks firing, with most of its five million people sheltering at home in baking heat without electricity, food or water. An aerial view of black smoke rising above the Khartoum International Airport amid ongoing battles between the forces of two rival generals. KHARTOUM: Sudan's warring forces battled Friday with heavy gunfire and explosions in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere in the country, as they ignored appeals by world powers for an end-of-Ramadan ceasefire. More than 300 people have been killed and thousands wounded since the fighting erupted Saturday between forces loyal to Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the commander of the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who is commonly known as Hemeti. The Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said that overnight, as the Eid al-Fitr celebrations marking the end of the Muslim Ramadan month of fas...