The head of the Sovereignty Council, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in Sudan, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, said on Wednesday that there will be no negotiations, peace or ceasefire “until the rebellion is defeated,” referring to the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo “Hemedti”, which is fighting a bloody war with the Sudanese army.
The Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported that this came during Burhan’s inspection of the front lines of the movements in River Nile State, where he saluted the Sudanese people, the armed forces and the regular services of the police forces, the intelligence service and the popular resistance “for confronting and defeating this rebellion”.
“There will be no negotiations, peace or ceasefire until this rebellion is defeated and these criminal rebels are rid of this country so that this country can live in peace,” al-Burhan said.
“Our fight against the terrorist rebel Rapid Support militia will not stop unless we liberate this country from these criminal rebels,” he said.
“We will not stop the fighting until we defeat these criminals, who destroyed this noble country, who have expropriated citizens’ property and practiced the most heinous violations,” al-Burhan said.
The army controls the Karary locality north of the city of Omdurman, where Khartoum state is active, as well as the old neighborhoods of Omdurman, while the Rapid Support Forces are deployed in parts of the areas of Um Bidda west of Omdurman and Salha in the south, south and east of the capital, and central and eastern Khartoum North.
Burhan had declared a state of emergency in the capital Khartoum a few days ago, in a step that is the first of its kind in the capital since the outbreak of the ongoing war between the army and the Rapid Support, and was the formation of a security cell by order of the governor of Khartoum, Ahmed Osman Hamza, to assume several tasks, including working as an early warning device for the rest of the regular forces, and monitoring, inspection and raid sites that confirmed “the presence of hostile activity.”
Since mid-April 2023, the two former allies – the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces – have been in conflict and engaged in a fierce war that has so far killed about 13,900 people and displaced 8.5 million Sudanese, according to UN estimates.
Source: dpa
