Sudan fighting in its 16th day: A list of key events

By William On Apr 30, 2023

Fighting shakes Khartoum despite a ceasefire and satellite images show bus convoys at the Egyptian border as civilians flee the violence.

This is the situation on Sunday, April 30, 2023:

To fight

Army soldiers clashed with paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in central Khartoum as deadly hostilities entered a third week despite the latest ceasefire. It will end at the end of Sunday.
The most recent three-day ceasefire was agreed on Thursday after mediation led by the United States, Saudi Arabia, the African Union and the United Nations.
Former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok warned that the conflict in the turbulent African country could degenerate into one of the world’s worst civil wars if not stopped early.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for negotiations to end the bloodshed: “There is no right to continue fighting for power if the country falls apart,” he told Saudi television channel Al Arabiya .

The World Food Program warned that the ongoing violence could plunge all of East Africa into a humanitarian crisis, with food prices skyrocketing in Sudan.
The violence killed at least 528 people and injured about 4,600, the health ministry said, but those numbers are almost certainly incomplete.
Civilians fleeing the violence continued to pour into neighboring countries. Satellite images showed long bus convoys at the Egyptian border. At least 20,000 people have fled to Chad, 4,000 to South Sudan, 3,500 to Ethiopia and 3,000 to the Central African Republic, according to the UN.

The United Kingdom promised to continue to support the British trapped in Sudan, but said conditions had become too dangerous for evacuation flights to continue.
Another 363 Indonesian citizens evacuated from Sudan came home on a second flight operated by Indonesia’s flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, the foreign ministry said.
Two Chinese naval vessels transported 940 Chinese citizens and 231 foreigners to a port in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from Wednesday to Saturday, ministry spokesman Tan Kefei said in a statement.