The Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces announced on April 30 that they agreed to extend the humanitarian ceasefire for another 72 hours from midnight that day, but sporadic exchanges of fire were still heard in the capital Khartoum on May 1. United Nations officials said on the 1st that both parties to the conflict in Sudan agreed to send representatives to negotiate, but there are still challenges to truly achieve the negotiations.

Witnesses said that the two sides of the conflict were still in confrontation in many blocks of Khartoum. The two sides occupied different strategic points. Occasionally, there were firefights, and most people stayed at home and dared not go out.

The armed conflict that lasted for half a month caused the price of Khartoum to soar. The price of a kilogram of fresh milk has risen from 1500 Sudanese pounds (about 600 Sudanese pounds) before the war to 30000 Sudanese pounds. The Sudanese people urgently hope that the two parties to the conflict will achieve a genuine ceasefire at an early date.

In an interview with the media in Port Sudan on the 1st, Falk Pertes, head of the United Nations Integrated Transitional Assistance Mission in Sudan, said that the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Force agreed to send representatives to participate in the negotiations. If the talks can be held, they will focus on achieving a "stable and reliable" ceasefire, but the negotiations will "face challenges".

According to the report of the Sudanese Nile Network on the 1st, the Sudanese Armed Forces said the same day that it had reduced the combat capacity of the Sudan Rapid Support Force by about 50%. The Sudan Rapid Support Force said that a military hospital under the control of the city of Ntuman near Khartoum was shelled by the Sudanese Armed Forces that morning, causing several casualties among medical personnel.

According to the data released by the Sudanese Medical Commission on the 1st, at least 436 civilians have been killed and more than 1200 injured since the outbreak of the conflict on April 15.

Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, announced on the 1st that aid activities in Sudan would resume, and food distribution in Gadarif, Jezra, Kassala and White Nile states would resume in the near future.

In addition, Al Jazeera TV reported that hundreds of foreign citizens were still waiting to evacuate in Port Sudan, and organizations such as the Sudan Red Crescent Society had begun to provide food, water and other basic necessities for the remaining people. As the conflict continues, the shortage of local medicines will intensify. (Li Rui, Sun Tianlang, Wang Bingfei)

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