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In Sudan, the army and paramilitaries have been fighting each other for almost a year - and the fighting is getting more intense now, in Ramadan.

The military uses combat drones several times a day in Khartoum, especially in the northern districts of the capital, some of which are controlled by the paramilitaries.

The army also carried out two air strikes on suspected positions of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) this week in the North Darfur region bordering Chad and Libya, the local newspaper “Sudan Tribune” reported on Wednesday.

Shortly before the start of the fasting month on March 11th, the United Nations and the World Security Council called for a ceasefire.

However, the military said there would be no ceasefire until the RSF withdrew from heavily contested towns and villages, especially civilian homes and public facilities such as schools and health centers.

The RSF had declared in a statement that it was ready for a ceasefire.

In Sudan in the Horn of Africa, military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been fighting against the RSF led by Mohammed Hamdan Daglo since April last year.

The military and the RSF jointly seized power years ago.

Initially, Al-Burhan and Daglo led the country of 44 million people together.

They then fell out over sharing power, which resulted in violent conflict.

According to international aid organizations, the humanitarian situation in Sudan has recently worsened dramatically.

The conflict has already triggered the world's largest displacement crisis.

According to the World Food Program (WFP), it is now threatening to become the world's largest hunger crisis.

The children's rights organization Save the Children warned on Wednesday of a dramatic deterioration in the humanitarian situation in Sudan with serious consequences, especially for small children and their mothers.

New figures from humanitarian organizations and the Sudanese Ministry of Health show that almost 230,000 children, young mothers and pregnant women could die from hunger in the coming months, the organization said in a statement.

The food supply is on the verge of collapse, said Arif Noor, the country director in Sudan.

»If nothing is planted today, there will be nothing to eat tomorrow.

We see massive hunger, suffering and death.

And yet the world looks the other way. The international community must act now to prevent more people from losing their lives.

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