Sudan's army and a paramilitary force battled on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday, undermining a truce in an 11-day conflict that civilian groups fear could revive the influence of ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir and his loyalists.
bodies littering streets, buildings on fire, residential areas turned into battlefields and youths roaming with large knives."It was horrible," said Thanassis Pagoulatos, the 80-year old Greek owner of the Acropole hotel in Khartoum, after arriving in Athens to the embrace of emotional relatives.
"This war, which is ignited by the ousted regime, will lead the country to collapse," said Sudan's Forces of Freedom and Change , a political grouping leading an internationally-backed plan to transfer to civilian rule. The fighting "will not solve the main issues that civilian and military parties were trying to solve through the political process, especially the security and military reforms, which will ... lead to one professional unified army," the FCC added in its statement.
The army and the RSF agreed to a three-day truce, due to end late on Thursday, after diplomatic pressure from the United States and Saudi Arabia. The army has accused its rivals of using the lull to replenish supplies of men and weapons.
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