Countries around the world have continued to pull their citizens out of Sudan as airstrikes have continued to pummel Khartoum and deadly fighting has spread as far as Darfur.
At least 74 people were killed in two days of fighting that broke out this week in al-Geneina, the capital of Sudan's West Darfur state, the country's doctors' union said today.
The real figure is likely to be far higher.
In the final hours of a repeatedly broken three-day ceasefire, due to end at midnight on Thursday, the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced a 72-hour extension following pressure from Saudi Arabia and the United States.
The ceasefire has already been broken - including by gunfire which struck a Turkish evacuation plane - and signs of meaningful diplomacy between the two sides are nowhere to be seen.
At least 512 people have been killed and 4,193 wounded in the fighting, according to health ministry figures, although the real death toll is likely much higher.
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