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.

Doctors and nurses in the Red Sea city say they have not been paid for four months, as the Sudanese government's budget has been decimated by fighting between the army and the paramilitary RSF.

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 war has seen more than 4 million people flee their homes, of which 3.2 million people are internally displaced and nearly 900,000 people have crossed the borders into other countries.

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.

More than 3 million people have been uprooted, including more than 700,000 who have fled into neighbouring countries.

Most have fled either from the capital Khartoum or from Darfur, where ethnically-targeted violence has surged.

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.

The army has denied accusations by its rivals in the Rapid Support Forces that it depends on discredited loyalists of Bashir, an Islamist long shunned by the West, who was toppled during a popular uprising in 2019.