The army on Wednesday said it agreed to a new three-day ceasefire through Sunday following one due to expire on Thursday night. On Thursday, the military reiterated it would extend the truce and said it would honour it unilaterally. Responding for the first time, the RSF said on Thursday it too approved another 72-hour truce starting Friday. The army said it controls most of Sudan's regions and is defeating a large RSF deployment in Khartoum where some residential areas have turned into war zones. Frictions had been building for months between Sudan's army and the RSF, whose 2021 coup came two years after a popular uprising toppled long-ruling Islamist autocrat Omar al-Bashir.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 27, 2023 20:03 UTC