War between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has caused a major humanitarian crisis and displaced nearly 2.8 million people, of which almost 650,000 have fled to neighbouring countries.

The three cities that make up the wider capital around the confluence of the River Nile – Khartoum, Bahri and Omdurman – have seen more than 10 weeks of heavy clashes and looting, while the conflict has triggered a resurgence of ethnically motivated killings in the western region of Darfur.

Residents and news reports said fighting had intensified in Omdurman on Wednesday afternoon. The Darfur Bar Association, an activist group that monitors the conflict, said the RSF had carried out lethal attacks in the Manwashi area of South Darfur State twice in the past five days.

The United Nations mission in Sudan urged the two sides to maintain the truces they had committed to.

The RSF and allied militias remained accountable for violence, rape and looting in areas it controlled, and for ethnically targeted violence in Darfur, while the army remained accountable for attacks and aerial bombardments in residential areas, the mission said in a statement.

“These parties should be reminded that the world is watching and accountability for crimes committed during wartime will be pursued,” the statement said.

The conflict broke out amid disputes over what powers they would retain under an internationally-backed plan for a transition to civilian rule.

Multiple ceasefire deals have failed to stick, including several brokered by Saudi Arabia and the United States at talks in Jeddah that were suspended last week.

The shift comes after the government of Maharashtra, the state that is home to the country’s financial capital Mumbai, changed the date for the Eid holiday late on Monday.

While bond traders said a notification from the Clearing Corp of India Ltd (CCIL), which settles trades, said the holiday was shifted, there is no communique for the forex market yet.

Traders, however, confirmed the forex market would also be shut on Thursday. A trader with a public sector bank pointed out that the value date for overnight USD/INR cash swap trades was June 27, over June 28.

The Reserve Bank of India, which oversees the bond and forex markets, has not put out any official statement as yet and was not immediately available for comment.

On the stocks front, the National Stock Exchange also said the expiry date for June futures and options contracts is now revised to June 28 from June 29 earlier.

The RBI is yet to issue directions on the auction timeline as well as settlement dates for the debt market, a trader with a private bank said.

General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, said in an audio recording aired on Al Arabiya TV the truce will be effective on Tuesday and Wednesday.