Sudan live news: Warring sides agree to extending truce

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group and the Sudanese army have agreed to extend a humanitarian truce for 72 hours starting at midnight on Sunday (22:00 Saturday GMT).
The Sudanese police have deployed the Central Reserve Police in the streets of the capital Khartoum to maintain security.UN chief is sending envoy to Sudan in light of humanitarian crisis
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is sending an envoy to the Sudan region amid the “unprecedented” situation there, his spokesman has said.

“In light of the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Sudan,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement, Guterres is sending Martin Griffiths, the UN emergency relief coordinator, “to the region immediately”.

“The scale and speed of what is unfolding is unprecedented in Sudan,” the statement said. “We are extremely concerned.”As looting intensifies in Khartoum, loved ones mourn Sudanese-American doctor
American doctor Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman was killed last week as looting and lawlessness took over the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

The 49-year-old kept working in Sudan as long as he could after fighting engulfed the capital.

He ventured outside as explosions shook homes, to treat Khartoum’s wounded, before deciding he had to flee.

As he was leaving, a roving band surrounded him in his yard last week, stabbing him to death in front of his family.

Friends suspect robbery was the motive. He became one of two Americans confirmed killed in Sudan in the fighting, both dual nationals.

Sulieman’s colleagues in Sudan and Mercy Hospital in Iowa City are mourning the loss of a man they see as a powerhouse doctor and humanitarian. He had gone to Sudan many times to provide free medical care to its poorest people and to be with his ailing parents.

US says it helped evacuate 1,000 Americans from Sudan
The United States government and multinational partners have helped nearly 1,000 Americans leave Sudan since recent violence began, while a second government convoy arrived in Port Sudan on Sunday, according to the US Department of State.

US citizens and others eligible for the convoy would continue on to Saudi Arabia, where personnel were staged to help facilitate emergency travel, State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement on Sunday.

Some 150 Somalis have been evacuated safely: Official
Scores of Somalis fleeing violence in Sudan arrived in their Horn of Africa nation on Sunday, an official has said.

Some 148 Somali nationals, mostly students, arrived by plane in the capital, Mogadishu, said Abdurahman Nur Mohamed Diinaari, a top official with the Somali foreign ministry.

The Somalis had travelled by land from Sudan to Ethiopia and then onward by air to Somalia.

Forty-five of those who arrived Sunday later were transported to Garowe, the administrative capital of the Somali state of Puntland, Diinaari said.What is Egypt’s role in Sudan?
Egypt’s role in Sudan is being disputed by analysts, with some arguing that Cairo has not been taking sides in the conflict.

“In the last decade, Egypt had been trying to mediate between the warring parties, including the Juba peace agreement, the Cairo workshop [in February 2023] and the Arab League initiative,” Sara Kira, director of the European North African Center for Research, told Al Jazeera.

But others say Egypt’s role in the Sudanese crisis is complex and contradictory.

“Since the beginning of the transition in 2019, Egypt has adopted a deeply flawed, short-sighted policy in Sudan, driven by two contradictory objectives,” said Khalil Al Anani, Senior fellow, Arab Center Washington DC.

“The first one is Egypt, along other regional allies, such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Israel, worked hard in order to prevent the establishment of a civilian democratic government in the last four years,” he told Al Jazeera.

The second objective, he said, was fueled by Cairo’s fear that Sudan would turn into a failed state, and that meant supporting a strong military rule akin to the one in Egypt.

US says it helped evacuate 1,000 Americans from Sudan
The United States government and multinational partners have helped nearly 1,000 Americans leave Sudan since recent violence began, while a second government convoy arrived in Port Sudan on Sunday, according to the US Department of State.

US citizens and others eligible for the convoy would continue on to Saudi Arabia, where personnel were staged to help facilitate emergency travel, State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement on Sunday.

Some 150 Somalis have been evacuated safely: Official
Scores of Somalis fleeing violence in Sudan arrived in their Horn of Africa nation on Sunday, an official has said.

Some 148 Somali nationals, mostly students, arrived by plane in the capital, Mogadishu, said Abdurahman Nur Mohamed Diinaari, a top official with the Somali foreign ministry.

The Somalis had travelled by land from Sudan to Ethiopia and then onward by air to Somalia.

Forty-five of those who arrived Sunday later were transported to Garowe, the administrative capital of the Somali state of Puntland, Diinaari said.

What is Egypt’s role in Sudan?
Egypt’s role in Sudan is being disputed by analysts, with some arguing that Cairo has not been taking sides in the conflict.

“In the last decade, Egypt had been trying to mediate between the warring parties, including the Juba peace agreement, the Cairo workshop [in February 2023] and the Arab League initiative,” Sara Kira, director of the European North African Center for Research, told Al Jazeera.

But others say Egypt’s role in the Sudanese crisis is complex and contradictory.

“Since the beginning of the transition in 2019, Egypt has adopted a deeply flawed, short-sighted policy in Sudan, driven by two contradictory objectives,” said Khalil Al Anani, Senior fellow, Arab Center Washington DC.

“The first one is Egypt, along other regional allies, such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Israel, worked hard in order to prevent the establishment of a civilian democratic government in the last four years,” he told Al Jazeera.

The second objective, he said, was fueled by Cairo’s fear that Sudan would turn into a failed state, and that meant supporting a strong military rule akin to the one in Egypt.