Fighters rampage in Darfur city despite Sudan truce

By SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — Residents say fighting has intensified in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur during a fragile three-day truce between the country’s two battling top generals. The truce eased fighting in the country’s capital, Khartoum. That has created a lull that allowed foreign governments to evacuate thousands of their nationals. Also, tens of thousands of Sudanese traveled to their country’s land borders with Egypt, Chad and Ethiopia, and to a port city on the country’s Red Sea. The new clashes reported on Thursday targeted civilians in the city of Genena, the capital of West Darfur province. Residents described attacks by fighters, mostly wearing uniforms belonging to the country’s powerful paramilitary, on several neighborhoods across the city.