Sudan fighting flares but military approves ceasefire extension

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Sudan's army and a paramilitary force battled on Khartoum's outskirts, undermining a truce in their 11-day conflict, but the army expressed willingness to extend the ceasefire

bodies littering streets, buildings on fire, residential areas turned into battlefields and youths roaming with large knives."It was horrible," said Thanassis Pagoulatos, the 80-year-old Greek owner of the Acropole Hotel in Khartoum, after arriving in Athens to the embrace of emotional relatives.

Bashir's three-decade reign came to an end with a popular uprising four years ago. He has been in prison, with spells in hospital, on Sudanese charges related to the 1989 coup that brought him to power. The plan was derailed by the eruption of fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces . The two sides and the FCC missed an April deadline to launch the transition to democracy, largely over disputes about merging the security forces.

 

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