Long-standing tensions between groups led by two generals who once shared power in Sudan erupted into open warfare on April 15, 2023. In the weeks since, hundreds of civilians and soldiers have been killed or wounded, more than 100,000 people have fled the fighting, and an enormous humanitarian crisis is developing as much-needed food-and-medical-supply missions have been slowed or stopped. Several cease-fire agreements have been made between the Sudanese Armed Forces leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary leader commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who leads the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), but the fighting continues. Gathered below, recent images of the conflict and those fleeing the chaos.
Photos: Escaping the Chaotic Conflict in Sudan
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![An elevated view of a river running through a city with black and white smoke rising from numerous fires.]()
Read moreThis video grab taken from AFPTV video footage on April 19, 2023, shows an aerial view of black smoke covering the sky above Sudan's capital, Khartoum. Explosions and gunfire resounded in the city on April 20, as fighting between the forces of two rival generals continued. #
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![Several men sit on top of a military tank parked beside a road.]()
Read moreSudanese army soldiers, loyal to General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, sit atop a tank in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, on April 20, 2023. #
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![A military jet fighter flies, seen through a set of power lines.]()
Read moreA fighter aircraft flies over Khartoum during clashes on April 15, 2023. #
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Read moreA satellite image shows damage, including a destroyed Ukrainian airplane, at Khartoum International Airport on April 17, 2023. #
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![A fire burns among buildings in a city.]()
Read moreSmoke rises from fires in Khartoum on April 16, 2023. #
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Read moreThis file picture composite shows Sudan's warring generals, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (left), the head of Sudan's ruling military council, greeting his supporters in Omdurman on June 29, 2019, and Sudanese paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo raising up a cane during a meeting with his supporters in Khartoum on June 22, 2019. #
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Read moreA man looks at damage inside a house following clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum on April 17, 2023. #
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![Three modified pick-up trucks with weaponry attached sit destroyed and burned in a street.]()
Read moreA view of vehicles of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, destroyed after fighting with Sudanese Armed Forces in Khartoum on April 18, 2023. #
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![Dark clouds of smoke rise above city buildings.]()
Read moreSmoke rises during clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum on April 19, 2023. #
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![A crowd stands beside a street shouting greetings to soldiers riding on a modified military pick-up truck.]()
Read morePeople greet army soldiers, loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan on April 16, 2023. #
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![People look at a fire burning in a lower level of an apartment building.]()
Read moreA view of a fire after a residential building was hit in the Lamab district during battles between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum on April 20, 2023. #
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Read moreDamaged cars and buildings are seen at the central market after heavy fighting in Khartoum on April 27, 2023. #
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Read moreTurkish citizens are evacuated from Sudan in an A400M military aircraft belonging to the Turkish Air Force at Wadi Seidna Air Base due to the fighting, in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 28, 2023. #
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Read moreCitizens of several different nationalities, fleeing from Sudan, sit inside a Spanish Air Force aircraft on its way to Madrid on April 24, 2023. #
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Read moreA passenger bus drives along a desert road at al-Gabolab in Sudan's Northern State, about 100 kilometers northwest of the capital, on April 25, 2023. Tens of thousands of residents have fled the fighting and are either internally displaced or crossing into neighboring countries. #
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Read moreA satellite view shows buses in a traffic jam as people wait at the Argeen border between Egypt and Sudan on April 28, 2023. #
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![A line of refugees forms near a crowd, around a table where aid workers take fingerprints.]()
Read moreSudanese refugees who have fled the violence in their country wait to receive food supplements from the World Food Program near the border between Sudan and Chad in Adré, Chad, on April 26, 2023. #
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Read moreLocal resident Naamat Jabal Sayyid Hasan, 75, bakes bread, as she does daily, to offer to people fleeing war-torn Sudan passing through in the northern town of Wadi Halfa near the border with Egypt, on April 29, 2023. #
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Read moreSudanese and people of other nationalities cross the Nile in a ferry after being evacuated from Khartoum to the city of Abu Simbel, at the upper reaches of the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, on April 30, 2023. #
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![People pass by damaged cars and buildings.]()
Read morePeople pass by damaged cars and buildings at the central market in Khartoum North on April 27, 2023. #
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Read morePeople line up to get fuel at a station in south Khartoum on April 30, 2023. #
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Read moreMembers of the Saudi Royal Navy help civilians aboard their ship be evacuated to Saudi Arabia, in Port Sudan, Sudan, on April 30, 2023. #
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![Two children stand near steps on an airport runway.]()
Read moreChildren evacuated from Sudan arrive in Abu Dhabi airport, United Arab Emirates, on April 29, 2023. #
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![A man walks near black smoke rising above several buildings.]()
Read moreA man walks while smoke rises above buildings after an aerial bombardment during fighting between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army in Khartoum North, Sudan, on May 1, 2023. #
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