In order to put an end to the conflict, US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order authorising penalties against Sudan.
The bloodshed, according to Biden, was both a tragedy and a betrayal of the Sudanese people.
A “rare and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” he claimed, was posed by the bloodshed in Sudan.
Avril Haines, the director of National Intelligence, had earlier warned a US Senate committee that the conflict was likely to go a long time since both parties had little motivation to compromise and believed they could prevail militarily.
Heavy combat is still going on in the capital city of Khartoum as well as the neighboring cities of Omdurman and Bahri, despite the most recent ceasefire failing to hold.
According to the World Food Programme, since violence started last month, food aid worth more than $13 million (£10.3 million) that was meant for Sudan has been stolen.
The WFP said that theft was commonplace across the nation.
UNICEF, the UN agency for children, issued a warning that the situation was tipping toward tragedy and that children were becoming more and more involved in the fighting.
