Heavy fighting has raged in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for the second consecutive day. The violence that erupted on Saturday between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid support forces (RSF) has already claimed the lives of 83 people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and is spreading to other parts of the North African country.
The United States, China, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Nations Security Council, the EU and the African Union have called for a swift end to hostilities that threaten to exacerbate instability in an already unstable region.
The battle is between the Sudanese government army led by President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF, a notorious militia of some 100,000 members, which made its name earlier this century by putting down an insurgency and genocide in the Sudan region. Darfur. The RSF is led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
Heavy fighting has been reported around Khartoum International Airport and the military headquarters. According to witnesses, the army carried out airstrikes on RSF barracks and bases – including in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum – and managed to destroy most of the structures.
The Dutch embassy is in contact with the Dutch in the African country. I’m about fifty.
Sudan has been in turmoil since the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir in 2019. Sudanese then demanded al-Bashir’s resignation en masse, the army intervened with a coup and deposed the president. A coalition of military and civilian politicians was formed to lead the country towards democracy, but in 2021 the military led by al-Burhan and Daglo seized power.
Source: BNR
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