After speculation that Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who had been serving a prison sentence, had been freed, the army said that he was being held in a military hospital but provided no evidence.

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Washington had hoped to work with other countries during the pause to help permanently end the fighting. Instead, the warring generals violated it just hours after it began.

Taking advantage of its turn as president of the Security Council, Moscow sent Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov to preside over a session on peace and diplomacy.

A prosecutor opened an investigation into the killing of about 60 people by men in uniforms of the national military. Days earlier, the authorities said they would investigate the killing of seven boys.

Many of the victims are believed to have been members of a church led by a pastor who is being investigated on allegations that he directed his congregants to starve themselves to death.

The clashes have killed more than 400 people and injured thousands more. Those displaced are streaming into nations such as Chad, Egypt and South Sudan, adding to a refugee crisis in the region.

With hopes fading that two warring generals will end their battle anytime soon, diplomats and other foreigners began heading for Sudan’s doors.

Wagner has offered powerful weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, to R.S.F. paramilitaries, American officials said.

An Australian, he assisted South African dissidents like the journalist Donald Woods, whose story was told in the movie “Cry Freedom.”

Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said his troops would also facilitate the evacuation of British, Chinese and French diplomats and citizens. But his claims could not be verified, and it was unclear how and when any evacuations could take place.

Even before its two leading generals went to war last week, “everyone wanted a chunk of Sudan,” an expert said of the strategically located country rich in natural resources.

A Times analysis of satellite imagery shows how a displaced persons camp lost a key source of food and supplies amid a fight for control of the country.

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Gunfights in the capital, Khartoum, continued for a seventh day, despite calls for a pause as the Muslim-majority nation marked the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

The bill, passed last month, calls for life in prison for anyone engaging in same-sex relations. President Yoweri Museveni congratulated lawmakers for their “strong stand” against L.G.B.T.Q. people.

Fierce fighting has trapped people in the capital, Khartoum, and the United States says it is “conducting prudent planning” to get diplomatic staff members out.