The Sudanese Armed Forces Command announced on Tuesday that the army had regained control of the radio and television headquarters in Omdurman from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
“Your armed forces, other regular forces and our countrymen who work side by side with them today managed to grab the headquarters of the National Radio and Television Corporation, the memory and conscience of the Sudanese nation,” the Sudanese army spokesman said in a statement.
Earlier, a Sudanese army military source told Al Jazeera tv that the army was able to regain control of the radio and television headquarters, noting that the army destroyed more than 100 RSF fighting vehicles after several days of battles.
The Sudanese army posted videos on its Facebook account showing dozens of combat vehicles it said were loot from the Rapid Support Forces as they tried to escape from the vicinity of radio and television buildings in Omdurman.
Rapid Support Forces adviser Imran Abdullah acknowledged the loss of the radio and television headquarters, and confirmed on his account on the X platform that losing the building does not mean losing the entire battle, due to what he called the army’s violation of the Ramadan truce approved by the UN Security Council last week.
150 RSF fighters killed
A source in the Sudanese army told Al Jazeera tv that the army forces destroyed – at dawn on Tuesday – 40 fighter cars on Al-Ardah Street in Omdurman, and killed 150 members of the Rapid Support Forces.
The source added that the RSF was seeking to rescue forces trapped in the radio and television building east of the city of Omdurman.
The Sudanese army said in a statement that it foiled in the early hours of Tuesday morning an attempt by the Rapid Support Forces to escape from a cordon imposed by the army in the vicinity of the Lieutenants neighborhood and the headquarters of the Sudanese radio.
The army forces eliminated most of the fleeing force and destroyed and received most of its equipment and vehicles, the statement said, noting that another group of Rapid Support Forces tried to support the besieged fighters was targeted.
Clashes resumed in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Monday, between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, on the first day of Ramadan, despite international and regional calls for a cessation of hostilities.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that clashes broke out in Khartoum, Omdurman and Bahri west and north of the capital.
According to witnesses, the army carried out attacks on the RSF in the southern and eastern neighborhoods of Khartoum, and in areas north of the city of Bahri.
For its part, the Sudanese army said in a statement that its forces in the military area of Al-Kadro, north of the city of Bahri, destroyed 7 combat vehicles and two fuel trucks belonging to the Rapid Support, confirming the death of the Rapid Support personnel accompanying those vehicles.
The U.N. Security Council on Friday called for a ceasefire in Sudan within Ramadan month through a draft resolution submitted by Britain, supported by 14 countries and abstained by Russia, and calls on “all parties to the conflict to seek a sustainable solution to the conflict through dialogue.”
Battles have been taking place in Sudan since April 2023 between the army forces led by the head of the Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemedti), who was vice president of the Sovereignty Council.
On Friday, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan within Ramadan as conditions deteriorate in the country, where millions of people are threatened with famine.
Source : Al-Yurae + Al Jazeera + Social Media
