The Sudanese army announced that its air force bombed on Monday morning positions of the Rapid Support Forces around the road linking the cities of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, and Melit, the land port in the state. Sudanese army sources also told Al Jazeera TV that warplanes launched attacks on gatherings of the Rapid Support Forces in the Sennar sugar factory in central Sudan, in addition to air strikes on their gatherings in the town of Jabal Muway, west of Sennar state.
Sennar state has been witnessing fierce clashes for more than a month between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces after the Rapid Support took control of several cities in Sennar state, including Sinja and Dindar.
At least two people were killed and others wounded when a Rapid Support Force stormed the town of al-Khoi in West Kordofan state on Sunday evening.
Local sources confirmed to Al Jazeera that an army force and reserve forces supporting the army moved from Al-Nuhud and clashed with a rapid support center west of Al-Khoi on the national road leading to the city of Al-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state.
The sources add that a Rapid Support force stormed Al-Khoi from the southern side, and fired heavy fire in the town’s market, causing the death of two citizens and wounding others, before the attacking force withdrew.
IGAD Warning
Meanwhile, Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh, chairman of the current session of the IGAD organization, called on the international community to take decisive measures to prevent the collapse of Sudan, which is looming.
In his speech at the closed session of the African Union Summit in Ghana, the President of Djibouti noted that his country, as the current chair of IGAD, will host a conference of key parties involved in peace efforts in Sudan this week.
“I would like to draw the attention of the summit to the very worrying situation in this brotherly country of Sudan, and that the peace efforts made so far have not yielded decisive results, and the longer the fighting continues, the greater the risk of the complete collapse of the Sudanese state, which will have serious consequences for the entire region,” he added.
Since mid-April April 2023, the Sudanese army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemedti) have been fighting a war that has left about 15,000 dead and about 10 million displaced and refugees, according to the United Nations.
Source : Al Jazeera
