Sudan's first professional stage actress was murdered amid shelling in Khartoum.

Asia Abdel-Majid, a Sudanese actress, was killed in crossfire during fighting in the capital Khartoum on Wednesday. It is unclear if it was the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces or the Sudanese army that fired the shot that killed her. Failed negotiations between Sudanese army head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan RSF and RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo over a disputed power-sharing arrangement exploded into violence in mid-April, sparking a mass exodus of refugees from the country and resulting in the deaths of at least 528 people. Previous ceasefires and promises of peace talks between both leaders have failed to curb the ongoing conflict. Abdel-Majid was buried in the grounds of a kindergarten where she worked, adding that it was unsafe to take her to a cemetery. She was considered a pioneer of theater in Sudan and the country’s first professional stage actress.