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Sudan ceasefire agreed for Thursday

Fighting is continuing across Sudan, but a truce starting from Thursday has been agreed.

Fighting is continuing in various parts of Sudan. The army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo of the rival Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, have agreed to a seven day ceasefire starting on Thursday. The two have also agreed to sit down for peace talks in neighbouring South Sudan.

An update on devastating floods in Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda.

We hear about the candidates who will be contesting the presidential election in Sierra Leone in June.

And the South African government is scrapping special status permits, which allow thousands of Zimbabweans to escape hardship back home to work in South Africa.

(Picture: Smoke billows during fighting in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Credit: AFP via Getty Images)

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Wed 3 May 2023 17:06GMT

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