For the second day in a row, the Rapid Support Forces attacked the headquarters of the Sudanese Army General Command in central Khartoum, as flames rose from several towers in the heart of the capital, according to what witnesses reported to Agence France-Presse.

Residents said, "Clashes are taking place around the army headquarters, in which all types of weapons are being used."

Residents in the capital reported on Saturday that fighting had resumed in the vicinity of the General Command headquarters after a lull for two weeks.
These clashes led to fires in buildings in central Khartoum.

Video clips on social media platforms, verified by Agence France-Presse, showed flames consuming famous buildings, most notably the tower that houses the headquarters and offices of the Nile Company, the largest oil company in the country.

The building, with its glass facades and pyramidal design, is one of the most prominent landmarks of the capital. The clips showed it burning almost completely, with black color covering its layers as smoke continued to rise from it.

Thick black smoke covered the sky of the Sudanese capital. Pictures circulated on social media showed the windows of several buildings in central Khartoum being smashed and bullets penetrating their walls.

Since the outbreak of battles in Sudan between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo on April 15, about 7,500 people have been killed, and the actual numbers are likely to be much higher, while about five million people have been forced to leave their homes and be displaced within Sudan or Crossing to neighboring countries, especially Egypt and Chad.

About 2.8 million people fled Khartoum, which was witnessing aerial bombardment, heavy artillery, and street fighting in residential areas.
Witnesses in the Mayo neighborhood in southern Khartoum said that they "heard the sound of heavy artillery shelling on the positions of the Rapid Support Forces in the nearby Sports City (area)."

At least 51 people were killed last week in a bombing that targeted a market in the Mayo neighborhood, according to the United Nations.

In the state of Kordofan State (350 kilometers west of the capital), the army and the Rapid Support Forces exchanged artillery shelling on Sunday, according to what residents reported.

Since the outbreak of the war, the most intense fighting has occurred in Khartoum and in the Darfur region of western Sudan, where the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias launched attacks on an ethnic basis, prompting the International Criminal Court to open a new investigation into possible war crimes.

At the beginning of this century, the Darfur region was the scene of a bloody conflict that killed 300,000 people and displaced more than 2.5 million Sudanese, according to the United Nations.