The Latest Breaking News from Khartoum

Fighting in Sudan's capital has escalated with air strikes, as delegations of rival military factions continue talks in Saudi Arabia.

Khartoum (AFP) - Fighting raged in the Sudanese capital and a city to the south Wednesday, residents said, pushing more people to undertake dangerous journeys to safety across the country's borders.

While Sudan’s generals have unleashed indiscriminate destruction and occupation on wide swaths of the capital, Khartoum, neighbourhood resistance committees and pro-democracy activists have stepped up to respond to the needs of citizens.

Metema (Ethiopia) (AFP) - After a perilous three-day journey from conflict-torn Sudan, Muhamad Yusuf reached the Ethiopian border town of Metema.

Heavy air raids and looting reported in central Khartoum as truce talks in Jeddah target a short-term ceasefire.

Fighting in Sudan's capital escalated on Wednesday with fierce clashes and air strikes, but rival military factions were reported to be close to a ceasefire agreement in talks in Saudi Arabia.

At least 100 animals, all kept inside enclosures, will have gone more than three weeks without food or water, said the head zoologist at the zoo.

When conflict flared in Khartoum almost a month ago, pitting Sudan's armed forces and their heavy weaponry against a paramilitary force born out of an agile but lightly-armed desert militia, it looked like it might prove a one-sided fight.

Dozens of zoo animals in Sudan's capital are feared dead after street battles between the country’s rival forces made the location unreachable

Khartoum (AFP) - The war between Sudan's generals is having increasingly severe consequences for civilians, with a doubling over the past week of the number uprooted from their homes, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says no settlement with RSF without a permanent ceasefire in Khartoum.