Sudan's army chief Gen Abdel Fattah Al Burhan met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday, the latest in a series of foreign visits by the de facto Sudanese leader amid mounting calls for a ceasefire in the civil war that has ravaged the North African country.

During their talks at the Presidential Complex, Mr Erdogan noted that the war had resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crises worldwide, and that "actions amounting to crimes against humanity have been occurring, particularly in the El Fasher region", according the government's communications agency said.

Thousands of civilians are reported to have been killed after the army

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