"Sudan situation is so worrying. If proper measures are not taken, Sudan territorial integrity is jeopardized with ramifications for the region," Amir Abdollahian wrote on Twitter on Friday.

The senior official expressed regret over foreign meddling and provocation in the African country, urging domestic dialogue and understanding to resolve the crisis.

"Domestic dialog and understanding seem to be the most viable option to end crisis," the minister added.

Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary force have benn engaged in fierce fighting in the capital and elsewhere in the country since mid-April, dealing a new blow to hopes for a transition to democracy and raising fears of a wider conflict.

The two sides have been competing for power as political factions negotiate forming a transitional government after a 2021 military coup. The tensions stem from a disagreement between the military, headed by General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, about how the paramilitary force should be integrated into the armed forces and what authority should oversee that process.

The conflict has killed about 700 people so far, most of them in Khartoum and the Western Darfur region, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project.

A spokesman for the United Nations secretary-general on Friday warned the conflict could cause hunger and malnutrition for 19 million people in the coming months.

The World Food Programme “projects that the number of acutely food insecure people in Sudan will increase by between two and 2.5 million people. That raises the number to a total of 19 million people in the next three to six months if the current conflict continues”, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for Antonio Guterres, stated.

Nearly 450,000 civilians have already fled their homes since the fighting began, the International Organization for Migration reported, including more than 115,000 who have sought refuge in neighbouring countries.

The North African country had already suffered under decades of sanctions during the rule of longtime president Omar Al-Bashir, who was removed in a palace coup in 2019 following mass protests on the streets.

Multiple truces have been agreed to since the fighting between the rival security forces erupted on April 15, but none has been respected.