On Sunday, the neighborhoods of Khartoum and Omdurman witnessed new battles between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces.
Sudanese army fighter jets bombed positions belonging to the “Rapid Support” in the neighborhoods of Al-Azhari, Al-Ingaz and Al-Ittidad around the Sports City, south of the capital, and Soba, southeast of Khartoum.
The army also launched intensive artillery shelling from the Wadi Sedna military area north of the city of Omdurman towards the positions of the “Rapid Support Forces” in the neighborhoods of the south and west of the city, while the army’s artillery shelling also targeted the neighborhoods of Riyadh and Maamoura, where the Rapid Support Forces are deployed east of Khartoum.
For its part, the Rapid Support Forces responded to the Sudanese army’s fighter jets with ground anti-aircraft in the vicinity of the sports city, according to a correspondent for the Saudi channel “Al-Arabiya”.
It is noteworthy that the Rapid Support Forces have imposed their control over large areas of the capital, Khartoum, and tightened their grip on the cities of Nyala in South Darfur, Zalingei in the center, El Geneina in the west and Al-Daein in the east, since the end of last October, including the army divisions and headquarters there.
The capital, Khartoum, and its neighboring cities have been witnessing heavy fighting between the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces since mid-April, following political and security disputes, which caused the displacement of more than five million Sudanese inside and outside the country, in addition to the death of more than 5,000 civilians, which required the intervention of local and international humanitarian organizations to help those affected.
Negotiations between the delegation of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces through their facilitators from Saudi Arabia, America and the African IGAD Organization have continued in Jeddah since last Sunday, after overcoming differences between the delegations of the two forces over the objection of the Rapid Support Forces to Ambassador Omar Siddiq, representative of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to be part of the Sudanese army negotiating delegation.
