Source: apnews.com\By SAMY MAGDY

Sudan’s top military general has arrived in South Sudan on Monday for talks with its president on his second trip abroad since the war in his country started earlier this year.

Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, chairman of the ruling Sovereign Council, landed at the airport in South Sudan’s capital and was received by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir. Both leaders inspected an honor guard then headed for talks that would focus on the conflict in Sudan, according to the council.

In April, simmering tensions between the military, led by Burhan, and the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, exploded into open fighting in the capital and elsewhere.

In this photo provided by Egypt’s presidency media office, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right,
greets Sudan’s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan at the Presidential palace in el-Alamein city, Egypt,
Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)

The fighting has reduced Khartoum to an urban battlefield, with neither side managing to gain control of the city. The military command, where Burhan has purportedly been stationed since April, has been one of the epicenters of the conflict.

FILE – Sudan’s General Abdel-Fattah Burhan answers questions during an interview, on Sept. 22, 2022, in New York. Sudan’s top military officer is traveling to Egypt on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, in his first trip abroad since his country plunged into a largescale conflict earlier this year, Sudanese authorities said. (AP Photo/Aron Ranen, File)