The United Nations Security Council has voiced “alarm” at mounting violence in Sudan, as the ongoing civil war in the country has displaced over seven million civilians.

Sudan’s warring sides agreed to a new 72-hour ceasefire brokered by the US and Saudi Arabia, hours after a deadly strike killed 17.

The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children including 270,000 in the Darfur region, the United Nations children's agency said.

The number of Sudanese displaced in the war between generals have doubled to 700,000 in the past week, UN declares.

A former Sudanese militia chief has denied charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity at a first hearing of the International Criminal Court (ICC) addressing atrocities in Darfur two decades ago.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says his country does not want to go to war with Sudan at a time of internal conflict in its northern Tigray region, which has also brought Ethiopia and Sudan to the brink of fighting over a contested border region.