The frequency of violent confrontations escalated in the capital, Khartoum, between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, on Sunday, and eyewitnesses reported hearing huge explosions and rising smoke columns from several areas, while citizens in the city of Omdurman and a number of states of the country and in the Arab Republic of Egypt celebrated in support of the army’s recent moves.
Field sources told “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”Newspaper that the fighting intensified in the Muqrin area in central Khartoum after the army crossed from Omdurman through the White Nile Bridge and Al-Fatihat Bridge and tried to advance towards the Arab market area and link the supply with its forces present in the General Command and the liberation of the Republican Palace.
The sources reported that the army destroyed 5 combat and armored vehicles in Al-Muqrin, noting that it also placed anchors and earth mounds in the places it recently controlled, including the Hilton Hotel, the 6th of April Gardens and the Martyr Mosque.
They also pointed to a surprise attack on the rapid support positions at the headquarters of the strategic battalion on Al-Ghaba Street adjacent to the White Nile River, and the sources said that the army caused estimated losses in the ranks of Hemedti.
At the same time, the armored front ignited south of Khartoum, with the army also trying to advance from that point north towards the forces coming from Omdurman, local residents told Al-Quds Al-Arabi that they saw smoke plumes rising from the Al-Lamab area, in addition to warplanes flying and dropping a number of projectiles on what are believed to be rapid support gatherings in the Mamoura neighborhood east of Khartoum and the Al-Azhari neighborhood in the south.
In the city of Khartoum North, fighting is still raging with more army reinforcements from Omdurman via the Halfaya Bridge. According to follow-ups, the army took control of the neighborhoods of Halfaya, Al-Azirak and Al-Kadro, while the rapid support declined to the Shambat area, with a wide deployment of snipers and preparation for a battle that may be a decisive one, which means, in the event of the army’s victory, control of the second of the capital’s three cities and linking the forces with the signal corps and the General Command through the Blue Nile Bridge.
In the far north of the capital, specifically at the Al-Jili refinery and the surrounding area, several civil sources close to the place reported that direct clashes were reduced and only mutual blogging and shelling by army aircraft, while the Rapid Support Forces said that they were able to eliminate a mobile of the army and the forces supporting it in the axis of the Al-Jili refinery.
In a related context, the resistance committees of the Hajar al-Assal area near the refinery said that the “militias” of the Rapid Support attacked the Saqai rural hospital with three combat vehicles and looted the belongings of doctors and workers, adding that this came after the hospital received a number of wounded army in the recent opening it undertaken.
The resistance revealed in a statement yesterday the withdrawal of the army from the south of the area, which resulted in looting and intimidation of citizens, and condemned the violations of the rapid support against civilians.
Last Friday, the army launched a large-scale ground operation through which it was able to cross a number of bridges in the capital of Fitihab, the White Nile and Halfaya, and move its massed forces to the cities of Khartoum and Khartoum North. Concurrently, troops moved in armored camps, al-Kadroo, al-Sharaj and the General Command and opened up in the surrounding areas, in addition to Another movement of troops from the outskirts of Shendi city in River Nile state towards the al-Jili refinery north of Khartoum.
Former Sudanese opposition officer Hossam Zulnon says that in the seventeen months since the RSF failed to seize power through the implementation of a military coup supported by the UAE, political forces and UN cover, implemented by the integrated mission and turned into a devastating war for two main reasons: the lack of an alternative plan to deal with the possibility of failure, loss of control and leadership, and the lack of an alternative goal in light of which these forces operate.
“The army’s position was the result of the great difference in military equipment, combat mobilization and control of strategic areas throughout the capital since the night of the tenth of April 2019, and the expansion of rapid support during the transitional period to follow strategies despite the high price paid by the Sudanese, but it was from a military point of view very effective and successful,” Zulnoun said in testimonies to “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”.
He added: “The army adopted the breaking of the combat military capabilities of the Rapid Support and weakening it continuously, and then moved in the second phase to targeting the field commands of the Rapid Support until it It has turned into a group of bandits and groups that have no connection between them, whether using the name of rapid support to carry out criminal operations against unarmed citizens.”
“The third phase of that strategy has left many of the RSF deployed in cities reasonably isolated from each other, weakening their exploitation of the characteristics of flexibility of movement and speed of response,” he said.
He believed that the strategies he followed during the previous stages succeeded, which makes the transition to the stage of liberation and opening up to the regions a logical and consistent step with the overall objectives of managing the battle and achieving the ultimate goal of winning it.
He explained that the simultaneous opening in all axes of Khartoum, west and south of Omdurman, Bahri and the refinery is the beginning of infantry operations that win wars, pointing out that what the army has done is the beginning of the real breakthrough and that changing the balance of the battle has begun.
At the same time, a number of neighborhoods of Omdurman witnessed, for the third day in a row, marches and demonstrations of citizens in celebration of the movements of the last army, as well as huge celebrations were launched in the cities of Kassala, Atbara, Shendi and Al-DamerAnd others yesterday evening after a rumor about the liberation of the refinery Al-Jelly, and hundreds of Sudanese families came out at the same time in the Egyptian capital Cairo to rejoice at the news of the recent army movements.
Since mid-April last year, the Sudanese have been living a devastating war that has led to the death and embarrassment of tens of thousands, the displacement of millions, the destruction of infrastructure and the widespread looting of homes and properties of citizens, markets and service institutions, which created a tragic reality that UN organizations classified as the most terrible in the world.
Humanitarianly, the 13th aid plane arrived at Port Sudan airport yesterday as part of the Kuwaiti airlift of humanitarian aid to Sudan to support those affected by war, floods and floods, and the plane carries a shipment of aid provided by the Kuwaiti Red Crescent.
Meanwhile, the emergency room south of the belt in Khartoum announced the suspension of all free kitchens “takaya” in the Al-Azhari neighborhood sector due to the financial deficit and the depletion of supplies, and appealed to national and regional organizations and philanthropists to intervene urgently to save the lives of civilians suffering from hunger, disease and poor services in those areas.
