The city is calm but tense, with a few more businesses open today than yesterday.

The fighting now is between the alliance and the courts. There is no telling how long it will go on.

This is because we do not address the root cause of the problem. We should not act as an ambulance service.

I think he was arrested because he had given an interview with a journalist and they discovered he was in Khartoum.

The drought is already here. This is our warning that without immediate help...there will be deaths. We are still assessing the situation rather than making emergency interventions. We have to move quickly.

If there is no intervention, then we could be talking about the same disaster we had in 2000.