While the White House announced moves with partners and a Sudanese civil group for a permanent ceasefire, former Sudanese official Ahmed Haroun revealed new details about the fate of ousted President Omar al-Bashir.
Despite the Sudanese authorities’ denials of storming Kober prison and their confirmation that the prisoners were transferred to a safe place, Sudanese sources confirmed that the ousted President Omar al-Bashir and his deputy, Bakri Hassan Salih, are in the military hospital in Khartoum after they were evacuated to him. This came in line with an audio statement broadcast by the Sudanese Taiba channel yesterday (Tuesday) by Ahmed Haroun, an official in the Bashir regime and one of the accused.
Haroun said that the leaders were evacuated to a safe place with limited guards, indicating that they remained in their prison in Kober prison under the crossfire of the ongoing battles for nine days, which led to the death and injury of many prison inmates, and after the escape of many prisoners and at the request of the remaining force from The prison force moved to another location outside the prison under limited guard, no more than three of those forces, in the hope that the prison authorities would obtain a judicial order to release them.
Haroun announced their readiness to assume their responsibilities and protect themselves, stressing their readiness to appear before the judicial authority whenever it was able to carry out its tasks.
Haroun called on the Rapid Support Forces to engage with the armed forces, and leave commitment to their current leadership, which has been proven to lead them to a family and personal project only, as he described it.
The spokesman for the Sudanese Armed Forces, Nabil Abdullah, held the Rapid Support Forces responsible for the storming of prisons and the escape of a number of security wanted persons.
On the other hand, White House spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre said yesterday that President Joe Biden’s national security team continues to talk to military leaders from both sides of the conflict in Sudan to support a permanent cessation of fighting there.
While US State Department spokeswoman Vedant Patel said that the United States continues to press for an extension of the ceasefire in Sudan, which includes coordination with regional and international partners to help form a committee to oversee negotiations.
