More than 10,400 people have been killed in the Sudan conflict so far, which broke out in April.

Burhan is the head of Sudan’s army, since he seized power during a coup in 2021.

Over 2.8 million people have fled the Sudanese capital, whose pre-war population was around five million.

A civil war between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has raged since April.

The military leaders in Niger have this week ordered the expulsion of the French ambassador Sylvain Itte despite his refusal to recognise the authority of the junta.

Air strikes have pummelled the capital Khartoum.

For three months, barely a day has passed for residents of the capital Khartoum without their homes shaking from constant air strikes, artillery blasts and gun battles.

After nearly three months of war between Sudan’s rival generals, the air strike is the latest incident to provoke outrage.

2.2 million have been forced from their homes inside the country.

Two months into the fighting in Sudan the United Nations has warned the conflict has taken an ‘ethnic dimension’ in the Darfur region.

The ceasefire brought a brief respite to the millions of civilians who have been trapped by the fighting in greater Khartoum.

More than two months into the fighting, the United Nations is worried the crisis could spill over and destabilise neighbouring African states.

Multiple truces have been agreed and broken during the conflict.

The fighting has driven 2.2 million people from their homes.

Multiple ceasefires have been broken between the country’s warring generals.

Civilians reported escalated fighting after the army quit ceasefire talks on Wednesday.

Witnesses reported artillery fire in eastern Khartoum and in Omdurman, just across the Nile.

The United Nations says 1.2 million people have been internally displaced and more than 425,000 have fled to neighbouring countries.

Violence erupted in April after months of escalating tensions between rival generals Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

There are 230 Goal aid workers still in the African country where fighting has continued despite multiple ceasefires.

There had been an absence of signals on the ground that fighters intended to honour the truce as gunfire and explosions still rocked Khartoum today.

The ceasefire is set to go into effect at 9.45pm (19.45 GMT) tomorrow.

We sit down with Dr Sulafa Salama, a Sudanese doctor working in St James’s in Dublin, who was trapped in Khartoum when the fighting broke out. We’re also joined by Dr Aia Mohamed, assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin, who speaks to us about how her father was visiting Sudan when the fighting broke out.

“Some people were praying, some people were crying.”

More than 750 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since fighting erupted on 15 April.

The talks had yielded “no major progress” as both sides believe they can win the battle, a Saudi diplomat said.

A joint US-Saudi statement welcomed the “start of pre-negotiation talks” and urged sustained global support to quell fighting.

US President Joe Biden threatened to impose sanctions on those responsible for the conflict which has killed hundreds in less than three weeks.

The latest advice from the Department of Foreign Affairs to Irish citizens in Sudan is to ‘shelter in place, remain indoors and observe local restrictions’.

Fighting between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group is in its third week.

The Sudanese Armed Forces and the rival Rapid Support Forces both confirmed a three-day extension of a truce that was due to end at midnight.

Protesters gathered on O’Connell Street in Dublin today in solidarity with the people of Sudan.

There have been multiple truce efforts since fighting broke out on 15 April between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary group RSF.

Joining us on this week’s episode to explain more is Jehanne Henry, a human rights lawyer based in East Africa. She was an advisor to the transitional government in 2020-21, and previously held the role of associate director in Human Rights Watch’s Africa division.

Irish citizens have been evacuated on flights arranged by EU partners and the UK.

‘There will be a famine situation and people will die of hunger even if they survive the bullets.’