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Dozens of zoo animals in Sudan's capital are feared dead after street battles between the country’s rival forces made the location unreachable

Clashes continue around presidential palace in Khartoum despite international calls to end hostilities

Martin Griffiths, in visit to the country, seeks pledges from warring sides to allow movement of staff and supplies.

The warring parties in Sudan have agreed to the seven-day truce, South Sudan's foreign ministry in Juba said in an official statement on Tuesday (local time). Read further on Dynamite News:

Sudanese fleeing the fighting between rival generals in their capital city are flooding an already overwhelmed city on the Red Sea and Sudan’s northern borders with Egypt

Government ends evacuation flights from Wadi Saeedna airfield because of a lack of Britons coming forward and volatile situation on the ground

Malign external actors' role in intra-state conflict reinforces a longstanding NZ conviction that the United Nations Security Council is not fit for purpose and must be reformed.

Sudan's warring factions are locked in a conflict that two weeks of fighting shows neither can easily win, raising the spectre of a drawn-out war between an agile paramilitary force and the better-equipped army that could destabilise a fragile region.

Air strikes, anti-aircraft weaponry and artillery could be heard in Khartoum as fighting in Sudan enters a third week.

Leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, said on Saturday that he is ready for negotiations with army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on condition that fighting stops between the rival sides. In remarks to BBC on Saturday, Dagalo, better known by his nickname…

The fighting has reawakened a two-decade-old conflict in the western Darfur region where many have died this week.