Fighters rampage in Darfur as Sudan extends fragile truce

By SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — Armed fighters have rampaged through a main city in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur, battling each other and looting shops and homes. Thursday’s violence came despite the extension of a fragile truce between Sudan’s two rival generals, whose power struggle has killed hundreds. The mayhem in the city of Genena pointed to how the generals’ fight for control in the capital, Khartoum, was spiraling into other parts of Sudan. The two sides accepted a 72-hour extension of the truce late on Thursday. The internationally brokered agreement hasn’t stopped the fighting but enabled enough of a lull for tens of thousands of Sudanese to flee and for thousands of foreigners to be evacuated.