In light of the absence of political solutions and the freezing of negotiations, violent clashes erupted between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces for the third consecutive day in the three cities of Khartoum: Omdurman, Khartoum and Khartoum North, while the Sudanese Armed Forces renewed their call for youth to volunteer in their ranks to fight the “rebels”. The areas south of Khartoum witnessed violent clashes with heavy weapons, with intense flight of warplanes and hearing the sounds of ground anti-aircraft guns.
According to Sudanese sources and eyewitnesses, clashes are taking place between the two parties in the vicinity of radio and television in Al-Molazemin neighborhood and in Wad Nubawi, Al-Omda and Al-Masalma neighborhoods in the old Omdurman area. Clashes also took place in the vicinity of the Central Reserve headquarters in Al-Thawra neighborhood in Omdurman. The sources stated that fierce battles with heavy and light weapons are taking place between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces around the industrial zone and the Zaqlona neighborhood in the center of Omdurman. Eyewitnesses said that the army forces continue to comb the city of Omdurman, using heavy and light weapons, with the involvement of special forces to remove the rapid support personnel from inside citizens’ homes.
The pace of battles has escalated in Omdurman since (Sunday) after the army announced that it would push its special forces to surround what it called the rebellion there.
A week ago, the three cities of Khartoum witnessed clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, the most violent since the outbreak of the war between the two parties, with the aim of controlling strategic sites in the capital.
Yesterday (Monday), the Sudanese Armed Forces called on the youth and everyone who can bear arms to share with the armed forces the honor of defending the entity and dignity of the Sudanese nation. And it added in a statement that the commanders of the military divisions and regions were instructed to receive and equip the fighters. And the official page of the Sudanese Armed Forces on Facebook published a video clip that it said was of hundreds of volunteers to join the army in its war against the rebel forces.
On June 27, the army commander, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, during a speech on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, asked Sudanese youth to join the military units to gain the honor of defending the survival of the Sudanese state, against which conspiracies had collapsed internally and externally.
Meanwhile, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Sudan, Volker Peretz, met with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, and the Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the African Union, Bankul Adwe, in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The United Nations Transition Support Mission in Sudan said that the meeting exchanged views to discuss efforts to reach a peaceful solution in Sudan. Sudan had previously asked the Secretary-General of the United Nations to withdraw his special representative, Volker Peretz.
