Smoke rose and gunshots again rang out in Khartoum on Sunday following clashes in which scores of combatants and at least 56 civilians were killed.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, residents heard the sound of heavy artillery firing across Khartoum, Omdurman and nearby Bahri, and there was also gunfire heard in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, where there had been no earlier reports of fighting.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which analysts say is 100,000 strong, have been competing with the country’s military for power as political factions negotiate forming a transitional government after a 2021 military coup.
