The number of people displaced inside Sudan by fighting between rival military factions has more than doubled in the past week to around 700,000, a UN agency has said.
The increase in displacements has raised fears of an escalation in violence despite ceasefire talks being held in Saudi Arabia.
Air strikes and ground battles are continuing in the capital Khartoum. Entire neighbourhoods have become empty as residents flee their homes.
Khartoum had a population of 5.4 million, but the once-peaceful city has been devastated by the conflict that broke out on 15 April.
One resident told the BBC that she heard gunfire again on Tuesday from many directions, and the distant sound of air strikes.
Others said the military’s fighter jets were flying all over south Khartoum and heavy battles were raging in the middle-class neighbourhood al-Sahafa, not too far from the international airport, which is shut.
The fighting is between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led respectively by Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti.
Credit: bbc.com
