About a hundred civilians were killed in Sudan , as gunfire and explosions continue to be heard in Khartoum on Monday morning, on the third day of fighting between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the armed Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo .

Tension had been lurking for weeks between al-Burhan and Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, known as "Hemedti", who together removed civilians from power during a coup in October 2021, before this escalation of political disputes became impossible, Saturday's confrontations.

Since then, battles with heavy weapons have continued, while the air force has regularly entered Khartoum to bomb headquarters of the Rapid Support Forces.

The members of the Rapid Support Forces, which include thousands of former fighters in the Darfur war, who have turned into a auxiliary force for the army, are deployed in military uniform and heavily armed in the streets and are fighting to control military installations and government headquarters in the country.

At least 97 civilians were killed, according to the independent and pro-democracy Sudan Doctors Syndicate, 56 of whom were killed on Saturday and 41 on Sunday, about half of them in the Sudanese capital.

The union said in a statement that "365 people were injured" as well.

The Syndicate had previously indicated that the death toll among the fighters was "dozens", but neither side had announced its human losses.

The army confirmed on Sunday evening that the situation is "stable" and the fighting is "limited", while the Rapid Support Forces said they were about to win.

But the two are difficult to diagnose the situation. The Rapid Support Forces announced that they had taken control of the airport on Saturday, which the army denied. These forces say that they entered the presidential palace, but the army also denies this and confirms that it controls the general headquarters of its general command, one of the largest complexes of power in Khartoum.

As for the official television, each of the two parties asserts control over it. However, the residents of the vicinity of the TV headquarters assert that the fighting continues, while the station broadcasts only patriotic songs, as happened during the previous coup.

With no ceasefire in sight, doctors and humanitarian workers sounded the alarm. Some neighborhoods in Khartoum have been deprived of electricity and water since Saturday, while electricity rationing was already in place on normal days.

The few grocery stores still open, she warned, would not last more than a few days if no supply trucks entered the capital.

Doctors confirmed the power outage in the surgical departments, while the World Health Organization stated that "many of the nine Khartoum hospitals that receive injured civilians suffer from depletion of blood units, blood transfusion equipment, intravenous fluids and other vital supplies."

The Sudan Doctors Syndicate said that patients, sometimes children, and their relatives do not have access to water or food, noting that the treated wounded cannot be taken out due to the security situation, which leads to overcrowding that prevents everyone from being cared for.

The "humanitarian corridors" announced by the warring sides for three hours on Sunday afternoon failed to change the situation, as gunfire and explosions continued to be heard in Khartoum.

And the World Food Program decided to suspend its work in Sudan after the killing of three workers in the program in the Darfur region of western Sudan on Saturday, while more than a third of the country's population of 45 million needs humanitarian assistance.

In Khartoum, where the smell of gunpowder spread, citizens are holed up in their homes, while black smoke rises in the center of the capital, where the main political and military headquarters are.

"It's the first time in Sudan's history since independence (1956) that this level of violence has been recorded in the center, in Khartoum," Kholoud Khair, who founded the Conflict Advisory think tank in Khartoum, told AFP.

The expert added, "Khartoum is the historical center of power and has always been the most secure region in Sudan during the deadly wars against the rebels" waged in Darfur and other regions at the turn of the millennium.

And she continued, "Today, battles are taking place throughout the city, and the Rapid Support Forces are deployed wherever they are, especially in densely populated areas, because each of the two sides thought that the high human cost might deter the other side, and we now realize that the struggle for power prevailed at any cost."

There have been many calls among the international community since Saturday to reach a halt to the fighting.

On Monday, the US and British foreign ministers called on Japan for an "immediate halt" to the violence.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after a meeting with his British counterpart James Cleverly that there was agreement on the need for "an immediate ceasefire and a return to talks".

The League of Arab States and the African Union held emergency meetings to demand a ceasefire and a return to a political solution, an option that did not lead to the resumption of the democratic transition process in Sudan, which emerged in 2019 from a thirty-year dictatorship.