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Sudan: ‘Bullets are not the answer’

Fighting rages in Sudan hours after an internationally brokered truce was supposed to have come into effect, as forces loyal to dueling generals battle for key locations in the capital, Khartoum.

Clashes erupted four days ago between army units loyal to General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of Sudan’s transitional governing Sovereign Council, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

Moe is a school teacher in Khartoum. He told Newsday: “One of the children has been…shot by a stray bullet in the head…a lot of people have lost their lives like that.” He had a message for the two generals battling it out: “Look at the TV screens and see what people are going through…bullets are not the answer.”

(Picture: Shows a man looking at belongings inside a damaged house during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum. Credit: Reuters.)

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