Hundreds have been killed in the western Darfur region since the nationwide conflict in Sudan began, raising fears of protracted warfare in an area already torn by decades of genocidal violence.
Dozens of Sudanese artists and curators have fled their studios and galleries in the capital, jeopardizing thousands of artworks and imperiling an art scene central to the 2019 revolution.
War in the northeast African nation has forced pregnant women to drive “through hell” to reach the dwindling number of hospitals and clinics, or turn to overworked midwives to give birth at home.
The truce is the first to be signed by both sides. It followed weeks of talks in Saudi Arabia between representatives of the two rival generals vying for power in the northeast African nation.