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It's April 17, 2023, and this is your DSR Daily Brief. I'm Chris Cotnor. Our top stories from international outlets this morning.

The New York Times reports that the forces of rival generals battling for control of Sudan clashed for a third day on Monday in the capital, Cartoum, as one of Africa's largest nations descended deeper into violence.

The fighting has pitted a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces against the Sudanese Army, a longstanding rivalry between Sudan's two top generals who have been vying for dominance over the Northeast African nation.

It was still not clear who was in control of the country, even as both sides claim crucial victories.

The death toll from the first two days of fighting rose to 97, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors.

For decades, Sudan has suffered under the yoke of dictatorship, coups, and political instability with successive governments overseeing widespread repression and genocidal violence, particularly in the Darfur region.

The country has struggled to shake off its troubled history, even after the longtime autocrat Omar Hassan al-Bashir was ousted in 2019.

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said there was a shared deep concern among the United States and its allies over the fighting in Sudan and called for the violence to end immediately.

According to Reuters, Kiev will aim to secure the reopening of food and grain transit via Poland as a first step at talks in Warsaw on Monday.

Ukraine's agriculture minister said after Poland and Hungary announced bans on some imports from Ukraine.

Some black sea ports were blocked after Russia's invasion of Ukraine began in February last year, and large quantities of Ukrainian grain, which is cheaper than that produced in the European Union.

Ended up staying in Central European countries because of logistical bottlenecks.

This hit prices and sales for local farmers, putting pressure on governments that had turned to the European Union for action before Warsaw and Budapest took their own decisions over the weekend.

Poland's ban on grains in effects in Saturday evening also applied to transit through the country.

Officials said it is meant to keep grain transport from entering the Polish market.

The Guardian reports that Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov is due to arrive in Brazil on Monday for talks with his Brazilian counterpart Moro Vieira in the latest of a series of bilateral encounters likely to ruffle the United States.

Lavrov arrives just as Brazil's president Luiz Anasio Lula De Silva returns from a state visit to China, and both missions are part of a diplomatic reset Lula has pursued since returning to power this year as he strives to recover Brazil's international reputation after his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro dismantled Brazil's established tradition of cooperation.

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