Reporters Without Borders urges the agency to cease all pressure on media critical of the government.

The conflict has caused widespread clashes, looting and shortages of food and medicine in Khartoum and other cities, driving more than 5 million people from their homes.

While the RSF has fanned out across residential areas, the army has used its advantage of heavy artillery and air strikes to try to push them back, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.

Reporters Without Borders urges Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil to put an end to such acts of censorship.

After the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces circulated a video of its soldiers claiming to have entered the base and captured tanks, army sources say they managed to drive them out.

The millions who remain in Khartoum and cities in the Darfur and Kordofan regions have faced rampant looting and long power, communications and water cuts.

The RSF, which occupied much of the capital at the outbreak of fighting in mid-April, responded forcefully, resulting in heavy clashes in residential neighbourhoods and civilian casualties and displacement.

The fighting broke out as the army and paramilitary RSF vied for power, since then more than 3 million people have been uprooted, including more than 700,000 who have fled to neighbouring countries.

Conflict between the army and the RSF has brought daily clashes to the capital, triggering ethnically-motivated killings in the western region of Darfur, threatening to drag Sudan into a protracted civil war.

Fighting has intensified since a series of ceasefire deals agreed at talks led by the US and Saudi Arabia in Jeddah failed to stick.

The negotiations with the RSF, which began in early May, had produced a declaration of commitments to protect civilians and two short-term ceasefire deals, although those deals were repeatedly violated.

The fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has triggered unrest in other parts of the country, especially in the western region of Darfur, but is concentrated in Khartoum.