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- The army and paramilitary RSF are currently in the fifth day of a one-week ceasefire brokered by the US and Saudi Arabia.
- It is the latest in a series of moves by the army chief, who last week officially sacked RSF chief as his deputy in the ruling sovereign council.
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Iran, Belgium free jailed persons in prisoner swap
Iran freed Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele after almost 15 months in custody, in a prisoner exchange for an Iranian...
- Oman said it had helped broker an "exchange deal" and that an Iranian previously held in Belgium was on his way to Tehran.
- Iran announced that the freed Iranian is diplomat Assadollah Assadi, who was jailed in Belgium over a 2018 plot.
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Sporadic shelling as combat eases after Sudan ceasefire
Sporadic artillery fire still echoed in Sudan's capital, but residents said fighting had calmed following a US and Saudi-brokered ceasefire,...
- The battles since April 15 have killed an estimated 1,000 people, sparked mass evacuations of foreigners and forced over a million people to flee their homes.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a video message that the truce is "backed by a remote monitoring mechanism" supported by the US.