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Welcoming ceasefire, Sudanese left calls for involvement of civil society and regional institutions
The Sudanese Communist Party has welcomed the ceasefire between the army and the Rapid Support Forces but has warned against monopolisation of the peace process by US and Saudi Arabia peacekeepers, reports PAVAN KULKARNI
HUMANITARIAN EFFORT: Sudanese Ayoub Abu Faterma, head of an NGO organisation, receives tons of relief supplies from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre at Port Sudan airport.

HEAVY shelling in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and its sister cities of Khartoum Bahri (North) and Omdurman continued on the morning of Monday May 22, hours before a seven-day ceasefire was scheduled to begin at 9.45pm local time. 

The “Agreement on a Short-Term Ceasefire and Humanitarian Arrangements” was signed on May 20 by the envoys of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — former allies and partners-in-coup who have been fighting each other since April 15.

By then, the death toll of civilians caught in the crossfire had climbed to 850, while nearly 4,000 others were injured, said the Sudanese Doctors Union (SDU), stressing that these figures do not include casualties among fighters.

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