Sudan citizens leaving, fear of ongoing WAR

Thousands of locals have left the capital of Sudan, and foreign countries are trying to evacuate their residents amid the fifth day of fierce war.

Witnesses said people were fleeing Khartoum in vehicles and on foot on Wednesday morning as gunfire and loud blasts rocked the city.

Sudan locals are worried about the ongoing war: 

Meanwhile, officers in Japan and Tanzania say they are considering missions to vacate their residents. The departure follows Tuesday’s collapsed truce between the warring sections.

The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) decided on a 24-hour humanitarian ceasefire on Tuesday. Still, the respite collapsed within minutes of its offered launch at 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

The RSF put on a new truce with the exact timing on Wednesday. The military said it would take by the ceasefire – but gunfire can still be heard across the capital.

Smoke can be witnessed over the size of the military bases in the city centre, where much of the war between rival military forces is centred.

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Mohammed Alamin, a reporter based in Khartoum, told BBC Focus on Africa radio that the gunfire hadn’t halted, despite the supposed truce.

“It’s terrible – these warring forces are firing randomly everywhere,” he stated. “I saw many people going outside Khartoum, running to travel to the neighbouring states.”

Some locals did not know what was happening – while others ran their anger at both flanks.

“The people think this battle is against them,” Mr Alamin stated. “This is what the people told me in the streets.” He even said that one issue with enforcing the truce might be the fragmented parties in the city.

“There is a sort of a disconnection between these armies – they are fighting in different places, in different areas with less contact…,” he said. The battle at the moment mainly affects shelling, not heavy air showers.