Gum arabic, once the thriving first export industry, is suffering from the conflict, leaving producers and the local market in dire straits: companies such as Coca Cola and Pepsi could be without supplies in six months

More than 700.000 people are forced to flee their homes to escape the fighting, an estimate of a humanitarian picture that is worsening by the day, according to Oim

61% of health facilities are closed in Khartoum and only 16% are functioning normally, according to the WHO, resulting in more deaths from epidemics and disruption of essential health services and first aid

Sudan's belligerent forces clashed again in the capital, with shelling and over 350 casualties reported, ignoring calls by world powers for a ceasefire at the end of Ramadan

The Khartoum faculty of archaeology registered a booming enrollment of women - over 90%, according to the Voice of Africa