Columns of black smoke rise Monday, April 17 from Khartoum, the scene of deadly clashes between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries. (Credit: AFP)
Before Tuesday’s ceasefire, Sudan was experiencing a worst-case scenario. After a brief overnight truce following the armed clashes that killed nearly 100 people since April 15, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD), Khartoum woke Monday to the sound of air strikes by the army’s air force, met with heavy gunfire by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.“Yesterday it sounded like rain, today it sounds like thunder,” said Sudanese researcher Nisrin Elamin on Twitter on Monday.Tied down in houses that have no bomb shelters and subject to long power cuts, Khartoum’s residents were living through a waking nightmare.“We saw it coming. But being right doesn’t do much good when a bomb explodes right next door,” tweeted Kholood Khair, founding director of Confluence Advisory, a Khartoum-based think tank.Sudan's...
Before Tuesday’s ceasefire, Sudan was experiencing a worst-case scenario. After a brief overnight truce following the armed clashes that killed nearly 100 people since April 15, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD), Khartoum woke Monday to the sound of air strikes by the army’s air force, met with heavy gunfire by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.“Yesterday it sounded like rain, today it sounds like thunder,” said Sudanese researcher Nisrin Elamin on Twitter on Monday.Tied down in houses that have no bomb shelters and subject to long power cuts, Khartoum’s residents were living through a waking nightmare.“We saw it coming. But being right doesn’t do much good when a bomb explodes right next door,” tweeted Kholood Khair, founding director of Confluence Advisory, a Khartoum-based...