Sudan Three-Day Truce Extension Agreed, And Broken — Reports

Despite a three-day US-Saudi-brokered ceasefire extension, reports from Sudan’s capital Khartoum suggest gunfire and explosions have continued as the violence forces foreign diplomats and citizens to flee.

US Sec State Anthony Blinken claimed credit late Monday for engineering an extension of the original 3-day ceasefire to respect the Muslim holiday Eid. Still, both rival generals cited Riyadh’s help in producing the new deal, which they insisted they would appreciate.

One Omdurman resident across the Nile River from Khartoum reported clashes near state TV headquarters and military bases early Tuesday, insisting “they stop only when they run out of ammunition… They don’t respect ceasefires.”