Sudan's army has seized smuggled weapons and ammunition coming from a foreign country, military sources told Reuters.

Military intelligence has identified a smuggler group operating in Sudan's Red Sea province and involved in smuggling weapons in eastern Sudan, supplying them to rebel groups, the sources said.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, is a Portuguese politician. Guterres was born in Lisbon on April 30, 1949, religiously shocked by a letter from the leader of Sudan's ruling military junta, General Abdel Fattah Burhan, to him, in which Burhan asked for the replacement of the United Nations special envoy for Sudan, Volker Pertes, sources told Reuters.

"The Secretary-General is proud of Volker Pertes' work and reaffirms his full confidence in the Special Envoy," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a commentary.

Saudi Arabia and the United States have said the warring parties in Sudan appear to be more respecting the current ceasefire.

The ceasefire, which was brokered by Washington and Riyadh, took effect on Monday, but fighting in the capital Khartoum and the western Darfur region continued. The fighting was particularly fierce on Wednesday, the two intermediaries said in a joint statement.

The current week-long ceasefire is the seventh consecutive ceasefire attempt after previous ceasefires were broken.

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