An airstrike on the last functional hospital in Sudan's El Fasher killed around 70 people, escalating the country's ongoing civil war.

Maintaining peace and international security is one of the UN's central missions, but its record has been badly tarnished as bloodshed intensifies in conflicts across the world, including in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan.

In six months, the war of attrition between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has killed more than 9,000 people and displaced nearly six million.

Six months after tensions between rival Sudanese generals ignited a devastating war, thousands lie dead, millions are displaced, and the once-thriving capital, Khartoum, is a shadow of its past glory.

Sudan is the world's seventh-largest producer of dates, growing more than 460,000 tonnes per year, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Plundering and infrastructure destruction have severely restricted access to essential resources like food, water, and medicine.

The present seven-day truce was reached following weeks of covert communication between the RSF and the Sudanese Army in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

The death toll could be much higher because there are numerous dead in the streets surrounding central Khartoum that nobody can access due to the fighting.

The people of Khartoum are unsure whether they will have anything to celebrate when the holy month of Ramadan ends and Eid al-Fitr begins on Friday.

Sudanese woman, 20, has been sentenced to death by stoning after being found guilty of adultery on June 26.

President Donald Trump is set to add another seven countries to his expended travel ban.