Sudan’s warring military factions agreed in principle on Tuesday to a seven-day ceasefire, South Sudan announced, as more airstrikes and gunfire in the Khartoum region disrupted the latest short-term truce.
A statement released by the Foreign Ministry of South Sudan, which had offered to mediate in the conflict, said its President Salva Kiir stressed the importance of a longer truce and of naming envoys to peace talks, to which both sides had agreed.
The credibility of the reported ceasefire — set for May 4-11 — between Sudanese army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo was unclear, given the
