Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that warplanes resumed bombing sites of the Rapid Support Forces in the suburb of Kafouri, east of Khartoum North, amid fierce battles between the two sides, with the fourth truce entering its third and final day, while the Sudanese Foreign Ministry denied that the army entered into negotiations with the Rapid Support.

The correspondent explained that the battles used heavy and light weapons, pointing to the hearing of sporadic shooting in the vicinity of the presidential palace in the capital, while columns of smoke were seen rising in the center of the capital, Khartoum, and in the city of Khartoum North, and near the bridge "King Nimr" off Khartoum North.

Anadolu Agency quoted local sources as saying that fighting resumed in the city of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state, for the second day in a row, with various types of weapons.

As the fighting continued for the thirteenth consecutive day, the death toll since the beginning of the clashes - according to the Sudanese Doctors Syndicate - rose to 303 civilian deaths, while the number of wounded reached 1848,3. Three children were killed in the city of El Obeid on April 26 as a result of a shell explosion.


No dialogue

Meanwhile, Sudan's Foreign Ministry denied the army was negotiating with the RSF and stressed that the RSF had no choice but to surrender or perish.

The ministry said in a statement that the RSF has violated the truce currently in force several times, and assaulted lives, property and some diplomatic headquarters.

The Sudanese army said earlier on Wednesday that army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had agreed in principle to an initiative by IGAD that included proposals to resolve the current crisis, while there was no comment from the RSF.

According to the army's statement, the proposals include extending the truce for an additional 72 hours, and the initiative includes sending representatives of the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces to Juba to negotiate.

South Sudan's Foreign Minister Deng Dao ruled out any direct dialogue between Burhan and Hemedti for the time being, citing the conditions of the war.

Khaled Omar Yusuf, spokesman for the political process in Sudan, said the political parties are currently interested in stopping the war immediately and in all ways.

In a series of tweets on Twitter, Khaled Omar Youssef denounced what he described as naïve talks about the armed confrontations erupted with an agreement between freedom, change and rapid support, and revealed that tensions between the armed forces and the rapid support are not new, stressing that the rapid support, since its formation, faces a position rejecting its presence from some army commanders.

International endeavors

In efforts to mediate a solution to the Sudanese crisis, African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki met with the European Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Annette Weber, in Addis Ababa, and focused on the current Sudanese crisis.

Moussa Faki said in a tweet that the African Union and the European Union are making great efforts to end the war in Sudan.

Humanitarian situation

The developments come as warnings are rising that millions of Sudanese are in need of urgent assistance, with most hospitals in the areas of clashes suspended.

While the director of the International Red Cross and Crescent in Sudan told Al Jazeera that 6 million people in Khartoum alone need urgent assistance, the Sudan Medical Syndicate announced that 60 out of 86 hospitals had stopped serving in the areas of clashes in the capital and the states.

The International Red Cross called on the parties to the conflict in Sudan to ensure the safety of workers in relief and humanitarian organizations.

Meanwhile, the U.N. refugee agency estimated that 270,<> people may have fled to South Sudan and Chad alone because of the fighting.

Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said UNHCR was appealing to all countries neighbouring Sudan to keep their borders open to refugees.

The fighting has limited food distribution in the vast country, a third of whose 46 million people were already dependent on humanitarian aid before the violence erupted.

A U.N. update on Wednesday said treatment for an estimated 50,<> severely malnourished children had been disrupted by the conflict, and hospitals still functioning were facing shortages of medical supplies, electricity and water.

Also in the context of the humanitarian situation, the Regional Director of the World Health Organization in the Eastern Mediterranean, Ahmed Al-Mandhari, on Thursday, issued an urgent appeal to the parties to the conflict in Sudan to evacuate health facilities immediately.

"The occupation and violation of these vital health facilities prevents patients from accessing basic health care, and has also caused the cessation of testing critical laboratory samples," al-Mandhari said in a statement.

He warned that the National Center for Central Public Health Laboratories "contains pathogens, such as measles, cholera, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, vaccine-derived poliovirus, and other dangerous substances."

"WHO is concerned about the potential for untrained individuals to mishandle these infectious samples, which means infecting themselves and then transmitting the infection."


Evacuations

Evacuations from Sudan of nationals of Arab and foreign countries are ongoing, with many foreigners still stranded despite the mass displacement over the past few days, in one of the largest evacuations since the withdrawal of US-led foreign forces from Afghanistan in 2021.

A Sudanese army source said U.S. planes evacuated 753 U.S. and European nationals through Wadi Sedna airport in northern Khartoum state.

The source added that about 200 Egyptians and 300 Europeans remained and will be evacuated today through the airport "Wadi Sedna".

The French government announced that nearly 400 people arrived at the Saudi port of Jeddah from Port Sudan on the French warship Lorraine.

A French statement said that among these are 5 French, and the rest are distributed among 50 other nationalities, especially from Italy, Britain, Canada, the United States and Ethiopia, adding that the number of those evacuated by France since the beginning of the operation rose to 936 people.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said it was unpredictable what would happen after the ceasefire in Sudan ended, but it was clear to him that it would be impossible to evacuate afterwards.

The British minister pointed to the evacuation of 536 British citizens from Sudan, denying reports that British evacuation teams landed on Sudanese soil without permission from their authorities.