A video posted online on July 3 and filmed on July 2 shows fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) manning a checkpoint at the Wad al-Bashir Bridge in Omdurman, north of Khartoum, as fierce fighting between forces of the rival Sudanese general continues to shake the capital.
Khartoum residents said they were shaken awake by warplanes and "
Witnesses told AFP a police base and the state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
building in the capital's northwest were under attack by the RSF, who said they had shot down an army MiG fighter.
In central Khartoum, others saw "scores of RSF vehicles" driving towards the vicinity of "the Armoured Corps".
Since April 15, the war between Burhan and his former deputy, RSF commander Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, has killed nearly 3,000 people and displaced 2.2 million within the country, with another 645,000 fleeing across borders, according to the International Organization for Migration.
"The situation is grave," the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a statement detailing the hardships of displaced Sudanese stuck in nine camps in White Nile State which borders South Sudan.
In addition to Khartoum, the worst fighting has been in the western region of Darfur where residents, as well as the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
, United States and others, say civilians have been targeted and killed for their ethnicity by the RSF and allied Arab militias.
The corpse count is believed to be much higher than recorded, as the World Health Organization says about two-thirds of health facilities are "out of service" in combat-affected areas.
Many injured people are unable to reach hospitals, and bodies lie rotting in the streets of Khartoum and Darfur.
A record 25 million people in Sudan need humanitarian aid
and protection, the UN says."Hundreds of thousands of people, most of them women and kiddies", pack camps that stretch out from the south of Khartoum all the way to the border with South Sudan, MSF said.
"There are suspected cases of measles, and malnutrition among children has become a vital health emergency.
"From June 6 to 7 we treated 223 children with suspected measles, 72 were hospitalised and 13 have died," MSF said.
The war has smashed the country's already fragile infrastructure, leaving residents short of water and electricity in the oppressive summer heat.
Numerous ceasefires, including some negotiated by the United States and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, have failed to hold.
Fighting continued during the just ended Eid al-Adha
...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting...holiday for which the warring sides announced separate unilateral truces.