Gunfire Shatters Eid Prayer for Peace by Fed-Up Sudanese – By Agence France-Presse (VOA News) / June 28, 2023
KHARTOUM — Hundreds gathered in the Sudanese capital Khartoum Wednesday to pray for peace on the first day of the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday, but gunfire shattered the brief respite, residents said.
Witnesses in the capital’s twin city of Omdurman late Wednesday reported airstrikes and anti-aircraft fire, despite separate unilateral truces announced by the warring generals for the holiday.
“The country can’t take any more of this,” Khartoum resident Kazem Abdel Baqi told AFP earlier in the day.
Nearly 2,800 people have been killed and more than 2.8 million displaced in the war between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy-turned rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
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