The Sudanese army accused the RSF of assassinating and kidnapping a number of retired armed forces, police and security officers. In a statement today (Saturday), he renewed his accusation of what he described as the rebels of continuing to violate the armistice, which required a military response to these violations. He said that the Rapid Support Forces continued indiscriminate shelling in Khartoum North, Omdurman and Khartoum, to force the civilian population to evacuate these areas. The army added that it had inflicted heavy losses on the RSF in the battles of Jabal Awliya, and that it had seized an Emirati armored vehicle and two artillery.
In turn, the Rapid Support Forces renewed their full commitment to the declared humanitarian truce to open safe passages for citizens, in order to provide their basic needs and to facilitate the evacuation of foreign nationals. And it said in a statement that it had decisively confronted the attacks of what it described as coup plotters and remnants, in violation and outright breach of the humanitarian truce, and inflicted heavy loss of life on them. And it reported that it controls 90% of the state of Khartoum and all the outlets leading to it.
The United Nations estimated the number of victims of tribal violence in the western Darfur region at about 100 people since last Monday. She also talked about monitoring the distribution of weapons to civilians.
While the French Press Agency reported that the death toll from the fighting rose to 574, with the discovery of 74 deaths in the city of El Geneina, at a time when the Sudan Doctors Syndicate announced that the death toll reached 411 civilians and 2023 injured since the beginning of the clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
And renewed tribal conflicts in Darfur after the outbreak of battles between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army.
Pictures showed the effects of the destruction of shops and homes in the city of El Geneina due to the clashes that took place yesterday (Friday).
The Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Army, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, said that it is not possible to sit with what he described as the militia leader. Because he is leading a rebellion that must be settled.
The Sudanese Armed Forces quoted Al-Burhan as saying: There is no way for this militia except to disappear, through negotiation on how to absorb it within the armed forces or fight it from all Sudanese people, as he put it.
On the other hand, the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Muhammad Hamdan, said that he is ready to conduct negotiations with the army commander, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, on the condition that the fighting stops first. He said in a press interview that he is looking forward to forming a fully civilian government today before tomorrow, as he put it.
In response to a question about who fired the first bullet in the current confrontations, Hamidti said that his forces were not the ones who fired it, and that they were surprised by it at a time when all the mediators were present, after the parties agreed to sit at 10:00 am and sign the final agreement, he said. .
For his part, the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Sudan, Volker Peretz, said that important countries in the region were invited to host Al-Burhan and Hamidti to mediate between them. He considered that the way out now from the crisis is to reach a truce and a clear mechanism to monitor its implementation. Peretz warned that if any party in Sudan refuses to respond to dialogue, it will be isolated internationally even if it wins the war.
