Truces fail, but tens of thousands flee Sudan as fighting lets up | Gallery News

After two weeks of fighting that has turned Khartoum into a warzone and thrown Sudan into turmoil, a wide range of international mediators – including African and Arab nations, the United Nations and the United States – are intensifying their pressure on Sudan’s two rival generals to enter talks on resolving the crisis.

So far, however, they have managed to achieve only a series of fragile, temporary ceasefires that have failed to stop fighting but created enough of a lull for tens of thousands of Sudanese to flee to safer areas and for other countries to evacuate thousands of their…