Thread by @ThomasVLinge

#Sudan 🇸🇩: residents of #Khartoum woke up this morning to the sound of gunfire and plumes of smoke rising into the air as clashes appear to have erupted in the capital city.

These armed confrontations follow weeks of rising tensions between the SAF and RSF military factions.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: many Sudanese see loyalists of the former #Bashir regime as being behind the recent tensions, sowing chaos as a way to derail any transition process and attempt a possible return to power dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/ar…

#Sudan 🇸🇩: more footage if gunfure and rising smoke in the #Khartoum area.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: clashes between the SAF and RSF are reported to have reached the Republican Palace in the center of #Khartoum.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: photo from #Khartoum International Airport. All flights are reported to have been suspended and passengers told the leave the terminal as armed clashes are taking place nearby.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: several sources are reporting that the #RSF has captured the Merowe airport, located in the north of the country, in the direction of the Egyptian border.

#Sudan 🇸🇩 BREAKING: #RSF forces have stormed #Khartoum international Airport.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: civilian casualties are being reported at a #Khartoum hospital.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: #RSF forces seem to dominate the main runway at #Khartoum International Airport.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: #SAF warplanes are circling over the capital #Khartoum, bombarding #RSF positions in the densely populated city.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: clashes have spread to the studios of state TV in #Khartoum.

All rhe suspected targets for a power grab have been hit at this moment.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: #RSF vehicles burning in southern #Khartoum, presumably after being hit by an #SAF warplane.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: sources around #Burhan have released a video of the #SAF general in what appears to be some sort of operations room, overseeing a response to the #RSF offensive.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: footage of #RSF fighters in control of the Merowe airbase in the north of the country.

Several Egyptian warplanes were said to be discovered at the airbase.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: #RSF forces have taken control of the Jebel Aulia airbase, located on the southern edge of #Khartoum.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: #Khartoum residents are sharing photos of missile shells which ended up in their homes as fighting is centered in densely populated areas.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: extensive damage is being reported at #Khartoum International Airport.

The arrival terminal was struck by shelling, outside planes are on fire.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: we're about 8-9 hours into the SAF/RSF clashes and at the moment neither side appears to have thr upper hand.

RSF had the initiative in the beginning and used it to seize several strategic areas in #Khartoum, yet the SAF seems to be launching counterattacks now.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: in the past four hours the balance seems to have shifted slightly in the favour of the #SAF, which is now taking the initiative.

#Burhan has declared the to cut all ties with the #RSF and considers the group "disbanded". #Hemedti has been marked as a fugitive

Across #Sudan 🇸🇩 a regional divide is starting to show. #SAF remains firmly in control of the riverine regions of the country. The #RSF dominates #Darfur. The country's metropolitan area (#Khartoum, #Omdurman, #Bahri) is still being contested.

Second day of power struggle in #Sudan 🇸🇩:
-fighting continued to rage over the past night
-dozens of civilians confirmed killed in crossfire.
-#SAF took over #RSF bases in #PortSudan, #Kassala, #EdDamazin, #Kosti.
-both sides doubling down on the capital

#Sudan 🇸🇩: #SAF soldiers in the city of #Gedarif tear down a banner of #Hemedti after seizing the local #RSF base.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: #SAF is in full control of #PortSudan after overrunning the local #RSF base.

Tanks have been brought out to guard the docking area of the port.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: photos of the #RSF base in #PortSudan which was captured by the #SAF with the support of some local gunmen.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: #SAF soldiers and commanders celebrating their victory over the #RSF in the city of #PortSudan

#Sudan 🇸🇩: a three-hour ceasefire (16:00-19:00) has been agreed upon between #Burhan and #Hemedti to allow for civilians to evacuate thr fighting areas

#Sudan 🇸🇩: the SAF claims to be back from in control of the Merowe airbase in the north of the country.

Violent clashes were reported in the area earlier today.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: the #SAF has seized control of the #RSF base in the city of #Kaduqli (#SouthKordofan).

#Sudan 🇸🇩: two children were killed in #Nyala (southern #Darfur) when their home got by shelling, as #SAF and #RSF forces continue to clash all over town.

#Sudan 🇸🇩: reports that the #RSF has been forced out of the city of #ElObeid in #NorthKordofan after the #SAF launched an assault on their base in the area.