KHARTOUM: Air strikes again shook Sudan's capital on Monday (May 8) while the latest truce talks in Jeddah yielded no progress and a Saudi diplomat said both sides consider themselves 'capable of winning the battle'. Sudan was thrown into deadly chaos when fighting broke out on Apr 15 between the forces of
KHARTOUM: Air strikes again shook Sudan's capital on Monday while the latest truce talks in Jeddah yielded no progress and a Saudi diplomat said both sides consider themselves"capable of winning the battle".
"A permanent ceasefire isn't on the table ... Every side believes it is capable of winning the battle," the diplomat added. "It's very dangerous everywhere," said Rawaa Hamad, who escaped from Port Sudan on an evacuation flight carrying 71 people to Qatar on Monday. Egypt's foreign ministry warned of"the great humanitarian tragedy" of the conflict,"directly affecting Sudan's neighbouring countries", in a statement on Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry's visit Monday to Chad and then South Sudan.
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