A resident in Sudan’s capital has told the newsmen that she has no more drinking water as fighting between rival forces rages in Khartoum for a fourth day.
“This morning we ran out,” Duaa Tariq said, adding she was saving one bottle exclusively for her two-year-old child.
Efforts are ongoing to get the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group to implement a 24-hour ceasefire.
The RSF has been looting in some residential areas of the capital.
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Residents of the Khartoum 2 area told the BBC that the RSF militia had been going home-to-home in the neighbourhood demanding water and food.
This is the area where the EU’s ambassador Aidan O’Hara was assaulted in his home. The Irish foreign minister said he was not seriously injured.
Heavy bombardments and black smoke can be seen around the airport, which is in the centre of Khartoum and right next to the military headquarters, as tanks are reported on some streets.
Residential areas surround the airport and staff and patients at a nearby cancer hospital say there are trapped by the fighting.
A female patient at Al-Zara Hospital told the BBC on Monday the situation was deteriorating as there were no medicine or food. The hospital is already overcrowded as it took in patients from another hospital that had come under attack by the RSF.
Lack of supplies is a problem countrywide, in up to seven states, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
“Now most of the hospitals are reporting [being] out of medical supplies, blood bags, oxygen and other many important medicine and surgical kits,” WHO’s Sudan representative Dr Nima Saeed Abid told the BBC’s Newsday radio programme.
UN special envoy to Sudan Volker Perthes has told the BBC that he is in daily contact with the two generals whose forces are fighting for control, but he says they are not talking to each other.
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Sudan’s de facto leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, told CNN earlier on Tuesday the ceasefire would start at 17:00 GMT. Some elements of the army have denied this.
RSF head Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is better known as Hemedti and is also Sudan’s deputy leader, tweeted that he had approved a ceasefire to ensure the evacuation of wounded civilians, but said previous deals to halt fighting had been violated.
Mr Perthes said agreements to pause the fighting for several hours on Sunday and Monday were not fully observed.
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