The unrest in Sudan has refused to peter out as fighting rages in the capital Khartoum despite talk of a truce to allow Muslims celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan on Friday.
Heavy bursts of sporadic gunfire can be heard all over the city as some civilians flee while others remained cowered in their homes instead of trooping to praying grounds to observe the end of thirty days of fasting for Islamic faithful.
Sudan, a Muslim majority country observe Eid with prayers in mosques and other grounds, festivities with family and friends and food parties.
At least over 400 people have been killed in a week of skirmishes between forces loyal to military leader Abdel Fattal al-Burhan and his deputy-cum foe Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
The two feuding generals are split over the absorption into the army of the 100-strong RSF forces, who should lead them and the nature and duration of the transition to civilian rule.
Sudan has been under military rule after Omar Hassan al-Bashir come to power in a coup in 1989.
Since his ouster in 2019, the military has maintained power but made commitments to return the country to civilian rule through a transition timetable.
There have been eyewitness accounts of aerial bombings and shelling in the capital which has been reduced to a ghost town as few braved the violence to visit mosques to mark the end of fasting.
A UN-sponsored ceasefire has foundered thanks to street fighting between personnel of the regular army under al-Burhan and members of the paramilitary unit called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Dagalo.
At least four UN workers have been killed in the crossfires since the unrest began last Saturday.
The latest to be killed was a Sudanese UN employee of the International Organization for Migration who was working in El Obeid, several hundred kilometers south-west of Khartoum.