Gunfire and Blasts Rock Sudan’s Capital as Factions Vie for Control (www.nytimes.com)

Gunfire and Blasts Rock Sudan’s Capital as Factions Vie for Control

There is fighting around the Khartoum airport, Amgad Fareid Eltayeb, a former adviser to Abdalla Hamdok, Sudans civilian prime minister who was ousted in the bloodless October 2021 military coup, said in a phone interview. How else do you define civil war

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Eltayeb, who said he could hear gunfire outside his home in central Khartoum, cut short the call after receiving a report that a relatives house in Omdurman, on the other side of the Nile, had been hit during fighting there.

The ouster of Sudans longtime dictator, President Omar Hassan alBashir, in a popular revolution in 2019 spurred hopes for an end to decades of internal strife and international isolation.

A military official, speaking to the Al Jazeera news network, accused the paramilitaries of shooting first, and said they were trying to seize control of the military headquarters in the city center.

Sudan has a long experience of military coups Since independence in 1956, the country has had more successful military takeovers than any other African country.

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