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A ample detonation was heard connected Friday (April 3, 2026) successful the military-controlled Sudanese superior Khartoum, an AFP journalist and witnesses said, with authorities blaming a landmine near down from the war.
Khartoum has seen comparative calm since the Army, which has been locked successful struggle with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023, regained power of the superior past year.
An AFP journalist successful Omdurman, Khartoum’s duplicate metropolis conscionable crossed the Nile, reported proceeding 1 blast from the absorption of cardinal Khartoum.
A witnesser successful the metropolis centre besides described a “single, large explosion” but said determination were nary contiguous signs of occurrence oregon rising smoke.
Other residents crossed the superior confirmed proceeding the blast.
Sudanese constabulary said successful a connection that the detonation occurred successful the Burri neighbourhood successful eastbound Khartoum and was caused by a landmine, a remnant of the war, which detonated aft “some residents acceptable occurrence to waste” successful the area.
Police added that nary casualties oregon worldly harm was recorded.
Burri lies adjacent respective strategical and subject sites, including the military’s General Command office and Khartoum International Airport.
The United Nations has antecedently warned that Khartoum is “heavily contaminated by unexploded ordnance”, reporting that landmines person been recovered crossed Khartoum.
Many of the unexploded devices were near down by RSF fighters who took power of the metropolis successful the aboriginal days of the war.
After the service recaptured the superior past March, the RSF carried retired drone strikes targeting subject bases and civilian infrastructure successful the capital.
But nary person been reported successful caller months, and the metropolis has regained a consciousness of normality, with 1.7 cardinal displaced radical returning.
Outside Khartoum, drone attacks by some the service and the RSF person continued to disrupt regular life, with immoderate strikes sidesplitting dozens astatine once.
This week, the United Nations said drone strikes had killed much than 500 civilians betwixt January and mid-March, pointing to “the devastating interaction of high-tech and comparatively inexpensive weapons successful populated areas”.
The wider conflict, present approaching its three-year mark, has killed tens of thousands of people, forced much than 11 cardinal from their homes and created what the UN describes arsenic the world’s largest displacement and hunger crises.
