Khartoum – Al-Yurae – (Anatolia) – The Sudanese army said on Saturday that it had carried out qualitative “successful” operations for pockets of the “Rapid Support Forces” in the city of Omdurman, west of the capital Khartoum.
The army said in a statement published on its Facebook page that “the special forces of the Corps of Engineers carried out successful qualitative operations to clean the pockets of rebellion from the militia (Rapid Support).”
Sudan’s health ministry later said “civilians were killed and injured during the RSF offensive.”
The attack came amid fighting that erupted in mid-April between the regular army and the RSF.
“The rebel Rapid Support Militias targeted the Medical Military Hospital in Omdurman, which resulted in the death of 4 civilians in front of the emergency department and the injury of 4 others with major injuries that require urgent intervention to perform surgeries,” the Health Ministry said.
This comes as representatives of the Sudanese army returned to the Saudi city of Jeddah, Saturday, to resume negotiations with the Rapid Support Forces, as the war between the two parties entered its fourth month
As of 11:30 GMT, there was no comment from the RSF regarding the army’s operations in Omdurman.
On Saturday morning, violent clashes resumed in the north and west of the capital Khartoum between the two sides of the conflict.
According to eyewitnesses to the Turkish News Agencey Anatolia, “violent clashes with light and heavy weapons broke out in the north and west of the city of Omdurman since the morning.”
The witnesses added that “strong battles are taking place in the old neighborhoods of Omdurman and in the vicinity of the Corps of Engineers (one of the strategic headquarters of the Sudanese army).
Others spoke of “the sound of heavy guns in the city of Bahri, north of Khartoum, with intensive flights of military and reconnaissance aircraft in the capital.
The Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Exchange accuse each other of fighting since April 15 and of committing violations during a series of truces that failed to end the clashes.
As the fighting entered its fourth month, the death toll of the clashes exceeded 3,000 dead, most of them civilians, and about 3 million displaced and refugees inside and outside one of the world’s poorest countries, according to the Ministry of Health and the United Nations.
