The death toll from the ongoing attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on the village of Wad Ashab in Al-Jazeera State since Tuesday has risen to 70, while the emergency room in southern Khartoum warned of the overcrowding of the morgue of Bashayer Hospital with bodies, indicating that at least 200 people were killed in the area during the past two months.

Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said on Tuesday that his country is "sovereign and does not accept any external dictates," following the rejection of a British draft resolution at the UN Security Council that the Sudanese government saw as "imposing guardianship over peoples."

Five advisors to the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti, announced their defection from the Rapid Support Forces, headed by Mohamed Abdullah Wad Abuk.

The Sudanese army announced, on Sunday, the defection of military commander Abu Aqla Muhammad Ahmed Kikil from the leadership of the Rapid Support Forces in Al-Jazeera State (central), and his joining the fighting in the ranks of the army.

The Sudanese army launched artillery and air strikes in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Thursday, military sources told Reuters, in the largest operation to retake territory there since the start of its 17-month war on the Rapid Support Forces.

Al Fasher Resistance Committees issue an urgent appeal for blood donations due to the increasing number of injuries in the Saudi Hospital.