Sudan's army appears to have gained the upper hand in a bloody power struggle with rival paramilitary forces, pounding their bases with air strikes, according to witnesses, with the violence leaving at least 59 civilians including three UN workers dead.
The fighting erupted on Saturday local time between army units loyal to General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who is the head of Sudan's transitional governing Sovereign Council, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, who is the deputy head of the council.
