Tracking the Fighting in Sudan: Maps and Videos

An all-out battle for control of Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, left a bridge across the Nile River in flames, the airport in ruins and many residents huddled in their homes as fighter jets flew overhead. Here’s where fighting has been reported:

Clashes between rival armed forces spread across the streets of the capital and to the four corners of the country as the conflict entered its third day. Artillery barrages hit Sudan’s military headquarters early on Sunday morning, and satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies showed major damage to multiple government buildings.

One focus of the fighting was for control of the bridges across the Nile, which divides the capital. A major battle erupted near Kober Prison, on the north side of the city, where the former dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir is being held.

On Monday, there was extensive street fighting in several neighborhoods in Khartoum, and two major explosions rocked the Kafouri suburb north of the city, residents reported. It was not immediately clear if those blasts resulted in casualties.

Gunfights, shelling and other clashes were widespread. Electricity is out, several residents said. One resident described huddling inside during hours of nonstop fighting, afraid that bullets would come through the windows. Nearly 100 people have been killed, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors.

“We don’t know what’s happening,” Dallia Mohamed Abdelmoniem, a resident of the Al Almarat neighborhood near Khartoum’s airport, said by phone, over the din of a fighter jet streaking through the sky.

In an illustration of the dangers facing civilians in the city, a stray rocket struck the home of Norway’s ambassador to Sudan, Endre Stiansen, just before 2 a.m. on Sunday. Nobody was injured.

The chaos was an alarming turn for Sudan, a large, strategically significant state that serves as a bridge between north and sub-Saharan Africa. Only four years ago, a jubilant popular uprising toppled Mr. al-Bashir, the widely detested ruler of three decades.

Two groups are vying for control of the country: The Sudanese Army led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group led by Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan. The generals united to take control of the country in a coup in 2021, but they are now fighting each other.

By Monday, both sides claimed control of key military and civilian installations, but the claims were impossible to verify.

Satellite images taken Sunday showed thick black smoke filling the sky over the city’s airport and two large Il-76 transport planes on fire. At least four other planes have been burned since Saturday, according to satellite imagery reviewed by The Times.

Fighting spreads in Darfur

Fighting spread across the country, where the two groups battled for control of airfields and military bases. While it was too early to tell if Sudan was tumbling into civil war, some people told The New York Times that the broad geographic range of the fighting made it feel that way.

Violence spread to an area of the country long tormented by conflict and displacement: the restive western region of Darfur.

Clashes had spread to the cities of Nyala in South Darfur, El Fasher in North Darfur and Zalingei in Central Darfur, forcing many people to flee displacement camps and their homes in those towns, said Adam Regal, a spokesman for the General Coordination for Refugees and Displaced in Darfur, an aid agency.

Video from Saturday showed tanks rolling down the streets of Port Sudan, the country’s main seaport on the Red Sea.

On Saturday night, the Rapid Support Forces claimed on Twitter that they controlled most of the country’s military installations, including an airport in El Geneina.

But such claims of control were disputed. Both sides have said they control key installations across the country, and each side accuses the other of staging a coup.