Al-Yurae- Yesterday, the central area of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, witnessed a heavy rise of smoke plumes due to the continued clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, in which heavy weapons were used.
Citizens said they heard explosions and saw smoke rising from the areas of Al-Muqrin and Al-Souq Al-Arabi in the center of the capital, in addition to renewed fighting in the vicinity of the General Command of the army, noting that the two sides exchanged artillery shelling while drone’s belonging to the army targeted gatherings of the Rapid Support Forces in the area.
According to eyewitnesses, the RSF fired heavy artillery from their areas of concentration in the east of the Nile, towards the General Command and the Naval Signal Corps, while army drone’s attacked the Rapid Support positions in (Mazraat al-Kurdi) in Soba East, and other locations in the Emtidad Nasser neighborhood, next to the army command.
Meanwhile, the Al-Jarif East emergency room announced that the neighborhoods of the area located in the east of the Nile are subjected to indiscriminate shelling, calling on citizens to “stay away from the streets, doors and windows and to adhere to the utmost caution and caution.”
The army drone’s targeted gatherings of the Rapid Support Forces in the Mujahideen neighborhood east of Khartoum city, while artillery shelling from the Wadi Sedna base continued on positions in Ombada and the old Omdurman neighborhoods, west of the capital.
On Monday, 7 citizens were killed and others were wounded after residents in the neighborhoods of Jihad, Unity and Peace west of the city of Al-Obeid in North Kordofan state, confronted members of the Rapid Support who tried to storm and loot homes.
Nizar al-Abyad told Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper that “these neighborhoods lived a difficult day yesterday after 7 of their sons were killed in defense of their properties after the militia violated the rapid support for the sanctity of homes in the absence of the army.”
“Residents carried the bodies of the dead and took them to the army command in the city to protest its failure to protect innocent civilians, while the emergency of al-Obeid hospital was filled with the injured,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Rapid Support Forces said they yesterday evacuated children and women of the army in the Corps of Engineers in Omdurman, provided them with humanitarian aid and delivered them to the safe areas they want to go to.
Since mid-April, Sudan has been witnessing a devastating war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces over differences over issues of integration, military and security reform, and accusing each other of attempting a coup and seizing power by force of arms.
On October 25, the two sides carried out a military coup that overthrew the transitional government that took power before the overthrow of the regime of ousted President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019.
In parallel, the commander of the 54th Infantry Brigade in the city of Dilling in South Kordofan state, called on members of the SPLM-N and the Rapid Support Forces to “arbitrate the voice of reason and submit to the desire of citizens to live in peace in order to preserve the city with its various components, which have coexisted for hundreds of years in harmony and peace.”
