Air strikes and explosions hammered Sudan's capital on Wednesday after the failure of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the army and paramilitary forces, forcing residents to stay hunkered down and prompting Japan to prepare to evacuate its citizens.
Continuous bombardments and loud blasts could be heard in central Khartoum in the area around the defence ministry compound and the airport, which has been fiercely contested and put out of action since fighting erupted at the weekend.Foreign powers including the United States have been pushing for a ceasefire between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to allow residents trapped by the fighting to obtain desperately needed relief and supplies.
The fighting has derailed the latest internationally backed plan for a transition to a civilian democracy, four years after the fall of Islamist autocrat Omar al-Bashir and two years after a military coup.who have backed different factions, and could also play into competition between Russia and the United States for regional influence.
Engineers cannot reach the area where the servers are located because it is too dangerous, it said in a statement. Ahmed Omer, a communications coordinator at the Norwegian Refugee Council based in Al Qadarif in eastern Sudan, said the clashes had quashed his hopes of visiting his parents in Khartoum for the end of Ramadan.
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