Video clips broadcast on the Internet showed fire consuming famous buildings in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, as battles intensified between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.

Activists reported on social media platforms that flames were consuming a tower housing the headquarters and offices of the Nile Company, the largest oil company in Sudan.

The building with glass facades and a pyramidal design is one of the most prominent landmarks of the capital, which has been groaning since mid-April under the weight of bitter battles after a dispute between the military component of the transitional authority.

The clips showed it burning almost completely, as black color covered its layers as smoke continued to rise from it.

For the second day in a row, the Rapid Support Forces attacked the headquarters of the Sudanese Army General Command in central Khartoum, according to what witnesses reported to Agence France-Presse.

Residents said, “Clashes are taking place around the army headquarters, in which all types of weapons are being used.”

Residents in the capital reported on Saturday that fighting had resumed in the vicinity of the General Command headquarters after a lull for two weeks.

These clashes led to fires in buildings in central Khartoum.

Thick black smoke covered the sky of the Sudanese capital. Pictures circulated on social media showed the windows of several buildings in central Khartoum being shattered and bullets penetrating their walls.

Since the outbreak of battles in Sudan between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, known as “Hemedti,” on April 15, about 7,500 people have been killed, and the actual numbers are likely to be much higher, while about five million have been forced to... People have to leave their homes and migrate within Sudan or cross to neighboring countries, especially Egypt and Chad.

About 2.8 million people fled Khartoum, which was witnessing aerial bombardment, heavy artillery, and street fighting in residential areas.

Witnesses in the Mayo neighborhood in southern Khartoum said that they “heard the sound of heavy artillery shelling on the positions of the Rapid Support Forces in the nearby Sports City (area).

At least 51 people were killed last week in a bombing that targeted a market in the Mayo neighborhood, according to the United Nations.

In Kordofan State (350 kilometers west of the capital), the army and the Rapid Support Forces exchanged artillery shelling on Sunday, according to what residents reported.

Since the outbreak of the war, the most intense battles have occurred in Khartoum and in the Darfur region in western Sudan.

At the beginning of this century, the Darfur region was the scene of a bloody conflict that killed 300,000 people and led to the displacement of more than 2.5 million Sudanese, according to the United Nations