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At least nine children have been killed and 50 others injured in Sudan where fighting has continued for a sixth day, the UN children's agency Unicef says.

Some children are sheltering in schools and care centres, the agency adds, meanwhile hospitals have been forced to evacuate children as shelling has moved closer.

“The fighting has disrupted critical, life-saving care for an estimated 50,000 severely acutely malnourished children. These vulnerable children need ongoing, round-the-clock care, which is being put at risk by the escalating violence," Unicef has said in a statement.

It said if the violence is not stopped, "children will continue to pay the price".

Over $40m (£32m) of vaccines and insulin are at risk of spoiling due to unprecedented power cuts in the ongoing Sudan crisis, Unicef said.

As things stand than 270 people have died in the violence since Saturday, according to a statement from the US embassy in Khartoum.

The leader of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which is engaged in conflict with Sudan's military has told Al Jazeera that he has no objection to a ceasefire over the Muslim festival of Eid.

Eid takes places at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.

Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, made the comments after two consecutive days of failed humanitarian ceasefires.

The United Arab Emirates has taken credit for the release of about 200 Egyptian troops, who had been captured by paramilitaries in Sudan.

The Rapid Support Forces said it freed the soldiers in keeping with the age-old fraternal relations with Egypt and respect for international law.

The Egyptian military said it had co-ordinated with the authorities in Sudan to secure their return.

The UAE had been involved in Yemen's civil war, having taken the separatists' side, while Sudanese troops fought alongside the Saudi-led coalition.

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A section of Muslims have accused the Kenyan government of misleading people after declaring a holiday on Friday to mark Eid-ul-Fitr.

Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki declared the holiday on Wednesday in a gazette notice.

The Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (Supkem) chairman Hassan Ole Naado told the Nation website that the declaration by the government was confusing Muslim faithful as the decision should be purely based on sighting of the moon.

Mr Naado said the end of Ramadhan should only be pronounced by the chief kadhi and not the government.

“The government should have consulted Muslims before making the decision. This is a big mistake and misleading,” he said.

Several Muslims in the country took to social media to condemn the government's move.

Eid-ul-Fitr is a major religious holiday for Muslims that marks the end of the month-long fasting period of Ramadan which is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.

The Egyptian army has confirmed the return of most of its soldiers held by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as the paramilitary group battles the Sudanese army for a sixth day.

In a statement recently posted on Facebook, Egypt's military spokesman said three Egyptian military transport aircraft landed at an air base in Sudan on Wednesday to evacuate the troops and they were "safe and in good health".

He noted that the evacuation had taken place under "comprehensive security" and the three flights had landed at an Egyptian military base in Cairo.

The remaining soldiers, who were securely moved to Egypt's embassy in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, would be evacuated "once the situation stabilises and the convenient security conditions allow their return to the country", the spokesman added.

Egypt's president had said earlier in the week that the Egyptian soldiers had been in Sudan as part of joint training exercises.

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A Sudan programme director of a humanitarian organisation Corus International has told the BBC that it's been "six days of terror" not knowing "what will happen next" amid fighting between rival army factions in the capital Khartoum.

She said she could see cars and heavy military vehicles "coming up and down on the street near my house".

"That is worst part of it, you in complete ignorance of where you are going as a country, as a people, as an individual," Sara elSaeed told the BBC Newsday programme.

She said that everything was scary, including having to explain to children in the house about what was happening.

Supplies of food, water and groceries were dwindling, she said.

While she did not have to go far to get her supplies, she said she was really feeling bad for other people.

"I really feel bad for people who are a little bit out of the city...the more you walk, the more you go out the more risky you are. It's not just shelling and stray bullets, you can even be attacked... it is a really strange place.

"Some of us are not used to this, it's scary and if you go out, people you leave behind will be in agony... it's just not normal.

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A Sudanese man living in the city of Omdurman has told the BBC’s Newsday radio programme that the warring sides at the heart of the country’s current conflict “don’t care about civilians’ lives”.

Mohamed, who only gave his first name, said he is “angry” and is wondering if the fighting will ever stop.

He added that “there is no ceasefire”, despite the anticipation on Wednesday night that both sides had agreed to one. He lamented that fighting only stopped when Egyptian soldiers were being evacuated out of Sudan, but resumed “as soon as they” were gone.

The banking system has also “shut down” Mohammed said, making it more difficult for people who are already short on food and water to buy more.

Most people in Sudan don’t carry cash he said, but rely on apps to make payments, so they are now facing “another issue” he added.

You can listen to his full interview here around 28 minutes in.