With inflation making the festive period more expensive, here are some top tips on how to save. Sudan's rival generals have returned to the negotiating table in Saudi Arabia, but the fighting shows no sign of easing as they wrestle to control the country's second-largest city. 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, people and displaced nearly six million.
In Khartoum, the air force has failed to dislodge the RSF, which still controls the capital's streets while the army holds the country's east. On Thursday, peace talks resumed in the Saudi city of Jeddah, which Riyadh and Washington said Sunday were aimed only at securing a ceasefire deal and the delivery of humanitarian aid.
To break the stalemate at the exact moment negotiations restarted, the RSF claimed it had captured Nyala, the South Darfur state capital and the largest city in the massive western region of Darfur -- the RSF's traditional stronghold.
With much of Sudan's already fragile infrastructure destroyed in the war, Nyala -- with an airport, railway and a key highway intersection -- could be essential for resupplying forces in the area. The paramilitaries have held the Om Dafouq border post with the Central African Republic for the past three months and have reportedly taken control of additional supply routes to Khartoum, 1, kilometres miles to the northeast.
Nyala is also "the largest military centre in the three states of South Darfur, Central Darfur and East Darfur", a former army officer told AFP, requesting anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
