![]() In social media posts verified by AFP, users shared footage of flames devouring landmarks of the Khartoum skyline, including the ministry of justice and the Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower - a conical building with glass facades that had become an emblem of the city. ![]() Though her family lives at least three kilometres away from the nearest clashes, Mohammed said "doors and windows shook" with the force of explosions, while several buildings in central Khartoum were set alight. Nawal Mohammed, 44, said battles Saturday and Sunday between the regular army and the paramilitaries have been "the most violent since the war began". Witnesses also reported fighting in the city of El-Obeid, 350 kilometres (about 220 miles) south. Other witnesses in southern Khartoum said they heard "huge bangs" as the army targeted bases of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries with artillery. "Clashes are now happening around the army headquarters with various types of weapons," one Khartoum resident, who declined to be named, told AFP. WAD MADANI (Sudan) (AFP) – Flames gripped the Sudanese capital Sunday and paramilitary forces attacked the army headquarters for the second day in a row, witnesses reported, as fighting raged into its six month.
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