Al-Burhan accuses the RSF of “betrayal” and violent fighting in western Sudan | news

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, accused the RSF of treachery and treachery in a speech he delivered during the army’s 68th National Day, as violent clashes between the two forces renewed this morning. Parties in the west of the country for the fourth day in a row, leaving dozens of victims.

Al-Burhan said he did not imagine what he described as treachery and treachery would spread from the leadership of the Quick Support Forces and that it would be tyrannized by greed for power, adding that the war was imposed on the government and the military. In safeguarding the security and dignity of Sudan as he said.

Al-Burhan added that the armed forces will be professional forces with the Sudanese people’s choices and legal right to law, democracy and institutions. Support Forces.”

“We will soon celebrate the elimination of this brutal insurgency,” said Sudan’s army chief, the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Muhammad Hamdan Tagalo (Hameti) and his aides, who have and have not falsified the facts and committed war crimes. They seek democracy.

Heavy fighting in Nyala

A military source told Al-Jazeera that military forces repelled an attack by Rapid Support Forces yesterday on the headquarters of the 16th Division in Nyala, the capital of West Sudan’s South Darfur state.

The source indicated that the army destroyed two combat vehicles and killed the attackers.

Medical sources told Al-Jazeera that 12 people died and more than 150 were injured in a Turkish hospital on Saturday and Sunday after artillery shelling and gunfire between the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces.

About 50 people were injured in Al-Wahda Hospital south of Nyala, two of whom died, and 10 others were transferred to the orthopedic department of a Turkish hospital, the same sources said.

According to sources in Nyala, the exchange of artillery shells between the army and Rapid Support Forces was renewed this morning for the fourth consecutive day.

According to local sources, the clashes between the two sides, considered the most violent in a while, took place inside the city’s neighborhoods and displaced dozens of families.

For his part, the governor of Darfur region, Minnie Argo Minawi, called on both sides of the conflict in Sudan to immediately stop fighting and engage in political dialogue. He said the political solution should be left to the people of Sudan.

Meeting in Addis Ababa

Meanwhile, representatives of the Sudanese Civil Forces and Revolutionary Front, which signed the legal agreement, are meeting today in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to discuss the country’s latest security and humanitarian developments.

A presidential council meeting on ways to end the war will be chaired by Sovereign Council member Dr. Al-Hadi Idris, official spokesman for the Sudan Revolutionary Front, Osama Said, told Al-Jazeera. .

The civil, political and professional forces that signed the framework agreement held a second meeting this afternoon to discuss ways to build a civil front against the continuation of the war, as well as to push diplomatic pressure to withdraw the conflicting parties. Negotiation table.

The head of the Forces for Freedom and Change told Al Jazeera that the meeting comes within the framework of efforts to end the war and political crisis in Sudan.

He pointed out that the meeting will discuss ways to develop a consensus among national powers to create a common basis for the negotiation process in order to inevitably reach a comprehensive settlement.

According to the United Nations, Sudan’s military and rapid support forces are exchanging accusations of responsibility for starting the fighting, which has killed more than 3,000 people, most of them civilians, and displaced more than 4 million people and refugees. .