The Latest Breaking News from Khartoum

US-Saudi-led initiative in Jeddah is the first serious attempt to end fighting that has thrown Sudan into chaos.

Khartoum residents caught between government and rebel forces have a glimmer of hope thanks to Saudi-mediated talks

Qatar has flown a relief flight into Sudan carrying some 40 tons of food

Sudanese army sends delegation to Saudi Arabia for talks on humanitarian situation in the capital, Khartoum.

Sudan, Africa’s third largest country by land mass, shares borders with seven countries in an unstable region. This means that Sudan’s current conflict will have economic, social and political ripple effects across a number of countries, including the Central African Republic, Egypt, Libya, Chad, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Huwaida al-Hassan and her daughters are among the medical staff tending to pregnant women amid Sudan’s clashes.

Hanadi Al-Sir was among thousands who rushed to Port Sudan, hoping to get on a boat or a plane to escape fierce fighting between the army and rival paramilitary forces.

Civilians trapped in the Sudanese capital saytheir plight is being ignored by both the army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

Heavy gunfire echoed around Khartoum on Friday as civilians trapped in the Sudanese capital said the army and rival paramilitary were fighting without regard to their plight.

The US believes there is little chance of a ceasefire in Sudan as neither side has an incentive to stop warring. 

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan pledged to take Sudan to civilian rule, but after going to war last month with his former partner in a military coup, that looks a distant promise.