Sudan fighting in its 19th day: A list of key events

Sudan’s warring military factions agreed to a new and longer seven-day ceasefire from Thursday. Here is the situation on Wednesday, May 3, 2023: Fighting Sudan’s warring military factions agreed to a new and longer seven-day ceasefire from Thursday, neighbour and mediator South Sudan said. South Sudan’s foreign ministry said in a statement that mediation championed by President Salva Kiir led both sides to agree on a weeklong truce and to name envoys for peace talks. Beyond Khartoum, lawlessness has engulfed the Darfur region from where more than 70 percent of the 330,000 people displaced inside Sudan by the fighting have fled.