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Sudan’s top army general has fired the country's paramilitary leader, his former ally turned rival, as the deputy of the Sudanese governing body

While attention has focused on the conflict in Khartoum, an uptick in violence in el-Geneina is terrifying residents.

About 843,000 displaced internally and 250,000 have fled across Sudan’s borders since fighting broke out a month ago.

Sudan's capital Khartoum and sister city Bahri came under renewed air attack on Friday as the war between the army and paramilitary forces entered its fifth week, deepening a humanitarian crisis for trapped and displaced civilians.

Mass looting by armed men and civilians is making life an even greater misery for Khartoum residents trapped by fierce fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), witnesses said.

Over four terrifying hours last weekend, masked gunmen affiliated to one of Sudan's warring factions raided one of Khartoum's oldest churches, opening fire at church officials as they searched for cash, gold and women, two witnesses said.

French forces tried to use a journalist's visit to northern Mali to track a jihadist leader but failed to prevent the reporter from being kidnapped by the militants, a joint investigation by RFI, newspapers Le Monde and Liberation and broadcaster TV5Monde has found.

Heavy air strikes pounded southern areas of Sudan's capital on Thursday as clashes flared near a military camp, witnesses said, in fighting that has displaced nearly 1 million people and left residents of Khartoum struggling to survive.

How do the rival Sudanese army and the paramilitary RSF stack up against each other, and what might happen next?

Since fighting erupted last month, dozens of people have vanished, but communities are organising to find and bring them home

Experts say arrests are part of a broader campaign by the army to consolidate control over aid relief.