A spokesman for a powerful Sudanese paramilitary battling the country’s military has announced his defection, in a possible sign the army was gaining the upper hand after three days of fighting.

Since Saturday the Sudanese military has been fighting the country’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) around the capital Khartoum and in other parts of Sudan after weeks of escalating tensions between the leaders of the two sides, who hold the top two positions on Sudan’s ruling council.

At least 97 civilians have been killed and 365 injured, according to a group of Sudanese doctors, as the fighting between the rival factions threatens to derail the nation’s stumbling shift from autocracy to civilian rule.

But the military’s air superiority may prove decisive, with the air force bombing RSF bases.

Airstrikes and shelling intensified around the capital on Monday, citizens said, with heavy fighting heard near the military headquarters.

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