At least twenty-two civilians died and dozens more were injured yesterday Saturday in airstrikes in Omdurman, a suburb of the capital Khartoum, the Ministry of Health announced, as the war in Sudan is now in its 12th week and on its way to completing three months.

The armed conflict between the armed forces of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s de facto president after the 2021 coup, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries of General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the deputy head of the military junta turned sworn-in its enemy, have claimed the lives of more than 3,300 people, according to the most recent estimate by the non-governmental organization ACLED, and uprooted more than 2.9 million others, turning them into internally displaced persons and refugees, according to the UN.

Fighting in and around the capital Khartoum is frequent. The DTY paramilitaries, who have taken over a large part of the city, often occupy houses and turn them into their bases. Hostilities often take place in densely populated areas. The military relies on its trump card in the ethers, as it alone has fighter jets, and constantly launches airstrikes against its adversaries.

The DTY accused the army yesterday of killing at least 31 people.

The army said on Facebook that special forces killed 20 “insurgents” and destroyed their weapons.

The fighting, beyond Khartoum and Darfur, a vast western region neighboring Chad, has now spread to Kordofan state.

A regional organization has announced that it is organizing talks tomorrow in which it is hoped that the warring generals or their representatives will meet for talks. All mediation efforts so far, notably by Saudi Arabia and the US, have so far failed, as the UN expresses growing concern over “crimes against humanity”, particularly in Darfur, and escalating violence, including sexual violence , with women and girls as victims.