SMOKE RISES FROM NEIGHBORHOOD IN KHARTOUM. AP.
A conflict between Sudan's army and an armed paramilitary group entered its third day on Monday.
Almost 100 people have died and over a thousand are estimated to have been injured in the ongoing violence.
- Sudan's army is fighting with a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
- The conflict has spread across the country but the key battles are taking place in the capital city of Khartoum.
- Khartoum’s international airport suspended flights after two Saudi aircraft were hit by crossfire on Saturday.
- The RSF said it has seized the presidential palace in Khartoum, as well as the city of Omdurman, and Merowe Airport in the north of the country.
- Sudan's military denied claims that the RSF had taken key areas of Khartoum, and said that government forces only faced "small pockets of rebels" around Merowe Airport.
- Sudan has been under military rule since a coup toppled former authoritarian president Omar al-Bashir in 2019.
- In recent months, military leaders have disagreed on how to integrate the 100,000-strong RSF into Sudan's army.
- The violence stems from a power struggle between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who is Sudan's de factor ruler and commands the army, and his deputy leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who controls the RSF.
