Paramilitaries Claim Capture Of Key Sudan Towns

Much of Khartoum's health and sanitation infrastructure, including this hospital, has been devastated in the fighting (Credit: AFP)

Paramilitary forces fighting Sudan's military have said they captured two strategic towns in the war-ravaged nation, which has been hit by a cholera outbreak that killed 70 people in the capital this week.

For more than two years Africa's third-largest country has been engulfed by a war between the army, led by the nation's de facto ruler, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).