[AlAhram] Blasts rocked the Sudanese capital Saturday, as fighting between warring generals entered its eighth week, with volunteers forced to bury 180 bodies recovered from combat zones without identification.Witnesses told AFP of "bombs falling and civilians being injured" in southern Khartoum, while others in the city's north reported "artillery fire", days after a US- and Saudi-brokered ceasefire collapsed.
Since fighting between Sudan's warring generals erupted on April 15, volunteers have buried 102 unidentified bodies in the capital's al-Shegilab cemetery and 78 more in cemeteries in Darfur, the Sudanese Red Islamic Thingy said in a statement.
Both regular army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy-turned-rival, paramilitary commander Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, have issued repeated pledges to protect civilians and secure humanitarian corridors.
But civilians reported escalated fighting after the army quit ceasefire talks on Wednesday, including a single army bombardment that killed 18 civilians in a Khartoum market, according to a committee of human rights
...not to be confused with
individual rights,mind you...
lawyers.
Both sides have accused the other of violating the ceasefire, as well as attacking civilians and infrastructure.
Washington slapped sanctions on the warring parties Thursday, holding them both responsible for provoking "appalling" bloodshed.