"STENCH OF BLOOD"
On Saturday, heavy gunfire, loud explosions and fighter jets were heard in many parts of the capital, according to witnesses, despite the army announcing an agreement to a three-day ceasefire a day earlier.
Two 24-hour ceasefires announced earlier in the week were also ignored.
The RSF added in its Sunday statement that "we renew our commitment to a ceasefire during the declared truce, to open up humanitarian corridors and ensure the safety and wellbeing of the citizens".
Daglo said in a statement he had "discussed the current crisis" with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and was "focused on the humanitarian truce, safe passages, and protecting humanitarian workers".
Five humanitarians, including four from UN-linked agencies, have so far been killed.
In Khartoum, a city of five million people, the conflict has left terrified civilians sheltering inside their homes. Many have ventured out only to get urgent food supplies - stocks of which are dwindling - or to flee the city.
While the capital has seen some of the fiercest battles, they have occurred across the country.
Battles have raged in Darfur, where Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the city of El Fasher said their medics had been "overwhelmed" by the number of patients with gunshot wounds, many of them children.
CRISIS MEETING
More plans are being made to evacuate foreigners, with South Korea and Japan deploying forces to nearby countries, and the European Union weighing a similar move.
The German ministers of defence and foreign affairs held a crisis meeting on Saturday on a possible evacuation, after three military transport planes had to turn back on Wednesday, according to German weekly Der Spiegel.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said more than 420 people had been killed and over 3,700 wounded in the fighting across Sudan, but the actual death toll is thought to be higher.
More than two-thirds of hospitals in Khartoum and neighbouring states are now "out of service", and at least four hospitals in North Kordofan state were shelled, the doctors' union said.
The World Food Programme said the violence could plunge millions more into hunger in a country where one-third of the population needs aid.
Burhan and Daglo's dispute centred on the planned integration of the RSF into the regular army, a key condition for a deal aimed at restoring Sudan's democratic transition after the military toppled Bashir in April 2019 following mass citizen protests.
In October 2021, Burhan and Daglo joined forces to oust a civilian government installed after Bashir's downfall.
Daglo now says the coup was a "mistake", while Burhan believes it was "necessary" to include more groups into politics.
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