Sudan fighting in its 18th day: A list of key events

By William On May 2, 2023

Despite the latest ceasefire, fierce fighting is raging in Sudan as the UN warns the conflict could end in “a full-blown catastrophe.”

This is the situation on Tuesday, May 2, 2023:

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Fierce fighting between rival generals raged in Sudan despite another extension of the ceasefire.
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands injured as airstrikes and artillery exchanges shook Khartoum and other states, leading to the exodus of thousands of Sudanese to neighboring countries.
Outside Khartoum, lawlessness has engulfed the West Darfur state capital of el-Geneina, where at least 96 people have been killed since fighting began, according to UN figures.

At least 528 people have been killed and about 4,600 injured in the violence, according to the Sudanese health ministry.
The United Nations refugee agency said it was bracing for “the possibility of more than 800,000 people fleeing fighting in Sudan to neighboring countries”.
Egypt said 40,000 Sudanese had already crossed the border.
More than 330,000 people have been displaced, more than 70 percent of them in West and South Darfur, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Russian forces said they would evacuate more than 200 people from Sudan on Tuesday with four military transport planes.
Martin Griffiths, the UN’s top humanitarian aid officer, arrived in Nairobi on a mission to find ways to bring relief to the millions of civilians trapped in Sudan.
Kenyan President William Ruto said the conflict had reached “catastrophic levels”, with the warring generals refusing “calls from the Intergovernmental Authority for Development, the African Union and the international community to strike”.
According to Al-Ekhbariya TV, the US Navy’s USS Brunswick arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port, with 308 people from Sudan.
Sudan’s top UN aid official, Abdou Dieng, warned that the situation was turning into “an unmitigated catastrophe”.