A Rapid Support Forces spokesman accused the Sudanese army of destroying the Khartoum oil refinery, while Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said the war in Sudan was still in its beginning.
A spokesman for the Rapid Support Forces said that the Sudanese air force completely destroyed the Khartoum oil refinery, the largest oil refinery in Sudan, after bombing it with barrel bombs, describing it as a terrorist act.
The statement called on local and international public opinion to classify what it called “Burhan militias and remnants of the National Congress” as a terrorist group, according to the statement.
Located 70 kilometers north of Khartoum, the Khartoum oil refinery is linked by pipelines to production areas in the southwest of the country and export ports in Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
The army did not issue any statements in this regard.
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and commander-in-chief of the Sudanese army, said the war in Sudan is still in its infancy, vowing to pursue the Rapid Support Forces and restore the rights of the Sudanese.
“The battle is at its beginning, and we will not leave the enemy any opportunity to rest until victory is achieved and all that the citizens lost is restored,” he said.
Darfur
On the other hand, the General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugees in Darfur (non-governmental community) announced on Tuesday the death of 110 displaced people – including 66 children in the Kalima camp for displaced people in South Darfur state in western Sudan – due to “hunger, malnutrition and the lack of life-saving medicines.”
In a statement on Facebook, the coordinator’s spokesman, Adam Rahal, appealed to the United Nations and its various organizations to bring humanitarian aid into the camps for displaced people to prevent the loss of innocent lives due to famine.
Located in the city of Nyala, which was taken over by the Rapid Support Forces, the camp is one of the most crowded camps for displaced people who sought refuge there after the outbreak of war in the country in April last year, with an estimated number of more than 90,000 displaced people.
Four of the capitals of the five Darfur states (North Darfur, South Darfur, West Darfur, East Darfur and Central Darfur) are under the control of the Rapid Support Forces, while the army forces control North Darfur state and its capital, El Fasher, and have been witnessing battles between the two sides since early April.
Humanitarian catastrophe
The Sudanese army has been at war since mid-April 2023, a war against the Rapid Support Forces, which it describes as terrorists, which has left about 15,000 dead and more than 8 million displaced and refugees, according to the United Nations.
There have been growing UN and international calls to spare Sudan a humanitarian catastrophe that could push millions into starvation and death due to food shortages due to the fighting.
According to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), 18 million people have been severely food insecure in Sudan since the start of the war.
The UN agency revealed that 20.3 million people, equivalent to 42 percent of the population, struggled to find enough food last year.
Source : Al Jazeera + Anatolia
