Malik Agar, the deputy head of Sudan’s ruling council, has welcomed negotiations for a new ceasefire but has stated that no truce can last until all forces are withdrawn from the capital.
Since the negotiations in Saudi Arabia broke down last week, there has been an alarming escalation of violence in Khartoum and the western Darfur region.
The army and the rival paramilitary force, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have both accused each other of breaching the truce, but negotiators have remained in Jeddah.
Mr. Agar stated that the talks there was the best chance of putting an end to the fighting.
Sudanese military leader Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan recently appointed Mr. Agar, a former rebel leader, to take over the RSF from his former deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti.
The majority of troops in Khartoum are RSF fighters, and the army appears to have resumed its attempts to blast them out of their positions.
