Al-Yurae- Khartoum – The (Darfur24) news website reported that fierce battles took place between Sudanese fighters along with Central Africa Seleka fighters on the one hand, and elements of the Russian Wagner mercenaries on the other hand, killing dozens, including 7 members of the Russian group “Wagner” in the border areas between Sudan and the Central African Republic.
According to the Darfur 24 website, identical civil sources reported that forces from the Seleka rebel movement against the Central African Republic regime, backed by Sudanese fighters, clashed with fighters from the Russian Wagner mercenaries in the border area of “Indaha” when Seleka fighters and their Sudanese allies ambushed Russian forces on the road between the town of “Sin Kilo” and the city of “Andha”, where there are gold mines..
A number of those who spoke to Darfur 24 revealed that their relatives were in the battles – and that the fighting left dozens of dead and wounded, including Sudanese and seven Russian “Wagner” elements, in addition to the killing of other numbers of government forces in the Central African Republic that were accompanying Russian forces without accurate count, in addition to the destruction of 3 tanks, and the seizure of quantities of weapons and military vehicles by Seleka forces.
Al-Yurae was unable to verify from official sources from the two countries..
The border area has topped the news in the last period, as Sudan announced the closure of the border and the development of control points, and the area, which belongs to the South Darfur region, is considered one of the nature reserves in Sudan, but it found neglect by successive governments where it become center for the cultivation of drugs and the spread by unruly gangs.
The European Union and the United States have imposed sanctions on the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary organization accused of human rights abuses in the Central African Republic and other countries.
The group’s fighters in Africa are also involved in Libya, Sudan and Mozambique and appear likely to have a role in Mali.
