Shelling kills dozens in Sudan's Omdurman

Random shelling has killed at least 34 people, including children, in a popular market in the Sudanese city of Omdurman, Khartoum state's health officials said.

Most of the casualties were Melga Market dealers and truck drivers, health authorities said late on Tuesday.

Sudan's army-aligned Foreign Ministry earlier rejected a regional summit's proposal to consider deploying peacekeeping forces to protect civilians, dashing tentative hopes the gathering might help efforts to end a near three-month-old war.

The violent power struggle between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces [RSF] since April 15 has killed more than 1,000 civilians and displaced 2.9 million, according to the United Nations.

Neither side has gained a clear advantage, and much of the capital has been abandoned or destroyed while mediation efforts thus far have failed.