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Sudan's rival military forces accuse each other of fresh violations of ceasefire set to expire today

Sudan's rival military forces accused each other of fresh violations of a ceasefire that is set to expire today as their conflict continued for a third week. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded since a long-simmering power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted into conflict on the 15th of April.<br />''<br />''The situation in Khartoum, where the army has been battling RSF forces entrenched in residential areas, was relatively calm on Sunday morning after heavy clashes were heard on Saturday evening near the city centre. The Sudanese army said on Sunday it had destroyed RSF convoys moving towards Khartoum from the west. The RSF said the army had used artillery and warplanes to attack its positions in a number of areas in Khartoum province.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">To beef up its forces in the capital, the army said on Saturday that the Central Reserve Police had begun to deploy in southern Khartoum and would be deployed gradually in other areas of the capital. The Central Reserve Police is a large and heavily-armed division of Sudan's police force that has fighting experience from conflicts in the western region of Darfur and in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan.</span><br />

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