Civilians are being killed in ongoing airstrikes in Khartoum. 17 people including five children have been killed in the latest attack.

According to Reuters news agency, civilians in Sudan’s capital city said on Saturday that mediators were calling for a ceasefire between the warring groups.

The fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces is entering its third month, with no clear victory for either side.

The United Nations report says that this war has displaced more than 2.2 million people while hundreds of people have died in this war.

In Khartoum and the neighboring cities of Umdurman and Bahri, the Sudanese army has the advantage of air power, while the Rapid Support Force is using residential neighborhoods as shields.

For the past two days, the army has increased its airstrikes targeting several residential areas.

On Friday, a senior army official, General Yasir al-Atta, warned the public not to stay in houses where Rapid Support Force personnel have taken refuge.

General Yasser added that we can attack them at any of these places and exchange fire with them.

Sudan’s Ministry of Health on Saturday confirmed a report by local volunteers that 17 people, including five children, were killed and 25 houses destroyed in Mayo, south of Khartoum.

Earlier on Friday, the local resistance committee said that 13 people had been killed by shelling in and around Illamab area of ​​western Khartoum, which has been declared an ‘operation zone’.

The Rapid Support Force has reported on Saturday that our fighters have shot down an army warplane in the Nile region west of Khartoum.

According to the local committee of Baitul-Mal Mahal, airstrikes continued intermittently in central and southern Omdurman from Friday to Saturday, killing one person and affecting several houses.

More than 270,000 people have migrated across the border to Chad in El-Jenina in West Darfur. More than 1,000 people were killed in attacks in these areas, which have been blamed on the RSF and allied militias.