Ceasing Fire not Enough to Stop Fighting in Sudan's Capital: What could be the Next Move
According to the documented records sighted in Sudan's capital fighting, last Monday's cease-fire was the seventh to be announced since the conflicts that have led to so much bloodshed in Sudan's capital broke out last month. Not as if the measures are not taken to stop and cease fightings so that the land will be at peace, but on the basis of the right steps to be taken, to a much greater extent, it is lacking, and if this is taken much time on the country's capital, what more can one say if it was on the other part of the country where so many and millitary fortifications as compared to the capital are not deployed, this leading to a much more concerned figure and fact on this fight.
Following the shaky start of the movement of ceasefire as reported by eyewitnesses in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, there has been a continuous flow of fighter jet flights in the city, bombardments of various artillery pieces, and consistent street battles in the city's capital. Precisely in Omdurman and Khartoum North, Khartoum’s twin cities, it was gathered that people heard sounds of small arms firing, followed by smoke.
After five weeks of fierce battles between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the warring factions agreed to a seven-day truce starting at 9:45pm (19:45 GMT) on Monday to allow the delivery of aid and let people escape source.
Notwithstanding the fact that the ceasefire started in a shaky way, it has raised hope of a pause in the war and likely peace, seeing that since the war broke out last month, it has driven over 1.1 million people from their homes, with 250,000 fleeing to neighboring countries. So many damages done both naturally and artificially to homes for living pose a threat, distabilizing volatile areas.
Accompanying the cease fire is a monitoring mechanism involving the RSF and the army, representatives from the US and Saudi Arabia which has brokered through after peace talks been held in Jeddah.
Long way gone and still both parties incharge of the war that broke out hasn't come to a consensus. I believe both has a long way to go and that the needful that should bring peace should be done. One striking fact about war or fierce fight breaking out is that is nit only the fighters that are affected but rather others too, crowing the wise saying that "whenever two elephants are fighting, it's always the ground(land) that suffers it more."