Sudan: warring sides commit to protect civilians and allow aid in but fail to agree ceasefire

Negotiations in Jeddah will continue, but US says two parties remain ‘quite far apart’

Sudan’s warring parties have signed a commitment to protect civilians but have not yet agreed to a ceasefire in talks described by US diplomats as difficult.

Representatives of the army and paramilitary forces, whose nearly one month of fighting has killed more than 750 people and displaced thousands, signed the agreement as they kept negotiating in the Saudi city of Jeddah.