The two parties to the fighting in Sudan, the army and the Rapid Support Forces, accused each other of targeting the Al-Jili oil refinery, north of the city of Bahri, and while the army said that the latter caused a fire in some of the refinery’s facilities, it announced that the army had completely bombed the refinery.
A statement by the Sudanese army published through the media accused what it described as the “rebel militia” that caused a fire today in some facilities of the Khartoum refinery in Al-Jili, as a result of destroying the refinery’s control units, and said that it initiated a statement “will not fool the intelligence of our people” in an attempt to attach its “heinous” crime to the Sudanese army.
The Sudanese army held the Rapid Support Forces responsible for what it described as a major crime and all the damage it entails to the facility and the residents of the surrounding area, especially as it had been keen to occupy the refinery since the first day of its rebellion, according to the statement, and called on the international and regional community to speed up its classification as a terrorist organization.
For its part, the Rapid Support Forces accused, on Wednesday, “the Sudanese army of bombing the Al-Jili refinery in the north of the city of Bahri in Khartoum state again, causing its complete destruction.”
The Rapid Support said in a statement that “the army forces are practicing systematic destruction of public facilities and vital infrastructure,” condemning in the strongest terms the barbaric actions of the remnants and their supporters, which violate all international laws, including the Geneva Conventions and the Jeddah Declaration.
The Khartoum Refinery Company operates its own oil refinery with a capacity of 100,000 barrels of oil per day. Khartoum refineries are also known as jelly refineries alone that have been able to meet all the needs of Sudan making it self-sufficient in petroleum products. Excess oil from the Red Sea port of Bashayer is also exported via a 1,610 km pipeline, making it the longest pipeline in Africa.
