Fresh clashes break out as US pushes ceasefire deal

Sudan's army said it repelled a paramilitary assault on a key southern city on Tuesday, as Washington urged both sides to accept a ceasefire proposal aimed at stemming one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

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Sudanese women who fled El-Fasher line up to receive humanitarian aid at the Al-Afad camp for displaced people in the town of Al-Dabba, northern Sudan, on Tuesday.

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Since April 2023, the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in a brutal conflict that has Killed tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly 12 million.

Speaking in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, US Africa envoy Massad Boulos said neither of Sudan’s warring parties have accepted a new truce proposal from the Quad group that includes the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.

“We appeal to both sides to accept the humanitarian truce as presented without preconditions,’ the US envoy said.