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KHARTOUM, Sudan AP 鈥?Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others from Sudan on Sunday as rival generals battled for a ninth day with no sign of a truce that had been declared for a major Muslim holiday.While world powers like the U.S. and Britain airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum, Sudanese desperately sought to flee the chaos. Many risked dangerous roads to cross the northern border i salomon nto Egypt. My family 鈥?my mother, my siblings and my nephews 鈥?are on the road from Sudan to Cairo through Aswan, prominent Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abual-Ala wrote on Facebook.Fighting raged in Omdurman, a city across the Nile from Khartoum, residents said, despite a hoped-for cease-fire to coincide with the three-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. We did not see such a truce, Amin al-Tayed said from his home near state TV headquarters in Omdurman, adding that heavy gunfire and thu stanley cup ndering explosions rocked the city.Over 420 people, including 264 civilians, have been killed and over 3,700 wounded in fighting between the Sudanese armed forces and t stanley cup he powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.READ MORE: What sparked the violent conflict to control the future of Sudan The RSF said the armed forces unleashed airstrikes on the upscale neighborhood of Kafouri, north of Khartoum. There was no immediate army comment.The ongoing violence has affected operations at the main international airport, destroying civilian planes and damaging at l |
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