About a hundred civilians were killed in Sudan , where battles continued, especially in Khartoum, on Monday, in the third day of fighting between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

At least two hospitals in the capital were evacuated after "bullets and shells penetrated their walls," according to doctors who said they also no longer had blood bags or medical supplies to treat the injured.

The smell of gunpowder has spread since Saturday in the capital, and columns of thick black smoke rise in the sky. Residents stayed in their homes, amid power and water cuts in a large number of homes.

On Monday, the independent and pro-democracy Sudan Doctors Syndicate announced the killing of at least 97 civilians, 56 of whom were killed on Saturday and 41 on Sunday, about half of them in the capital.
The union said in a statement that "365 people were wounded."

The Syndicate had previously indicated that the death toll among the fighters was "dozens", but neither side had announced its human losses.
Fighters in military uniforms, heavily armed, are deployed in the streets of the capital, which are also filled with military vehicles.

Tension had been lurking for weeks between al-Burhan and Daglo, known as "Hemedti", who together removed civilians from power during a coup in October 2021, before their political dispute over power in particular turned into confrontations on Saturday.

Battles with heavy weapons continue in several regions of the country, while the Air Force regularly intervened even inside Khartoum to bomb the headquarters of the Rapid Support Forces, the force that was known as the "Janjaweed" during the era of Omar al-Bashir and fought alongside his forces in the Darfur region.

Later, the Janjaweed militias turned into a regular paramilitary force under the name of the Rapid Support Forces. After the overthrow of al-Bashir, they participated in power-sharing between the military and civilians.

On Twitter, Hemedti's forces wrote in English, "Al-Burhan is bombing civilians from the air, and we are continuing to fight and we will bring him to justice."

It is difficult to diagnose the situation on the ground. The Rapid Support Forces announced that they had taken control of Khartoum International Airport on Saturday, which the army denied. She said that she 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 state television, each of the two parties asserts control over it. However, residents in the vicinity of the TV headquarters confirmed on Monday that the fighting continues in the area, while the station broadcasts only patriotic songs, as happened during the 2021 coup.

With no ceasefire in sight, doctors and humanitarian workers sounded the alarm. Some neighborhoods in Khartoum have been without electricity and water since Saturday.

And the few grocery stores still open warned that they would not last more than a few days if the supply trucks did not enter the capital.

Doctors confirmed that the power was cut off in the surgical departments, while the World Health Organization stated that "a number 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 the patients, including children and their relatives, do not have access to water or food, noting that the wounded who were treated cannot be removed from the hospital due to the security situation, which leads to overcrowding that hinders the provision of care to all.

Two Greeks were injured in Khartoum, while there are about 15 others inside the Orthodox Church in Al-Kudaima, and they cannot leave it because of the fighting.

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

On Monday, the UN envoy to Sudan, Volker Berthes, expressed his "extreme disappointment" at the violations of the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces of the humanitarian truce they had agreed to.

"The cessation of hostilities for humanitarian purposes, which the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces committed to, was only partially fulfilled yesterday (Sunday), and the clashes intensified this morning (Monday)," he said in a statement.

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.

On Monday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an "immediate cessation of hostilities, re-establishment of calm, and engagement in dialogue to resolve the crisis" in Sudan.
"I strongly condemn the outbreak of fighting in Sudan," Guterres said, warning that "any further escalation" of the conflict between the army and paramilitary forces "could be devastating for the country and the region."

The Secretary-General called on "all those who have influence over the situation to use it in the path of peace."
He added, "The humanitarian situation in Sudan was already fragile and has now become catastrophic."

"It is 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 Confluence Advisory think tank in Khartoum, told AFP.

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

"Today, battles are taking place all over the city," and in densely populated areas, "because each of the two sides thought that the high human cost might deter the other. We now realize that the struggle for power at any cost prevailed."

Calls have intensified since Saturday for a halt to the fighting.

The US and British foreign ministers called on Japan on Monday 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 cease-fire and a return to a political solution.

The UN Security Council will hold a closed meeting on the situation in Sudan on Monday.