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At least 25 folks have been killed and 183 others injured in clashes throughout Sudan, the Sudanese Central Medical Committee informed Act Daily News on Saturday.
Sudan’s paramilitary chief Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo claims to have seized most of Khartoum’s official websites after clashes erupted between his armed group and the nation’s navy on Saturday.
“The Rapid Support Forces control more than 90 percent of strategic sites in Khartoum,” Dagalo mentioned in an interview with Sky News Arabia, referring to his paramilitary group.
The nation’s navy chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, disputed Dagalo’s claims and mentioned the navy has maintained management over authorities websites.
![Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo attends a rally in the village of Abraq, Sudan, on June 22, 2019.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230415163447-mohamed-hamdan-dagalo-file-2019.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_720,w_1280,c_fill)
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Dagalo – also referred to as Hemedti – described Burhan as a “criminal,” accusing him of instigating combating on Saturday, which led to 3 civilian deaths and dozens wounded.
Armed clashes have been reported all through Khartoum, together with the presidential palace and the capital’s military headquarters. Medical sources at a hospital in central Khartoum informed Act Daily News Saturday afternoon the hospital has obtained dozens of wounded civilians and navy personnel within the final a number of hours.
![Heavy smoke bellows above buildings in the vicinity of the Khartoum's airport on April 15, 2023, amid clashes in the Sudanese capital.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230415120804-04-sudan-unrest-0415.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_720,w_1280,c_fill)
Sudan’s navy mentioned the Rapid Support Forces infiltrated Khartoum airport and burned civilian plane.
“To our honorable people, the rebellious forces are continuing with their cycles of traitorous plotting and attacks against our country and its national sovereignty. Since this morning, your Armed Forces sons have been fighting with their lives for our nation’s rights and dignity,” the Official Spokesman of the Armed Forces mentioned in an announcement.
Dagalo’s meteoric rise to energy started when he was a frontrunner of Sudan’s infamous Janjaweed forces, implicated in human rights violations within the Darfur battle of the early 2000s. His group additionally killed at the least 118 folks in pro-democracy protests in June 2019 after troops opened fireplace at a peaceable sit-in.
Sudan’s military accused the Rapid Support Forces of “traitorous plotting” towards the nation, and has demanded its dissolution.
There will probably be “no negotiation or dialogue before dissolving Hemedti’s rebel militia,” the Sudanese military mentioned in an announcement. It additionally issued a wished poster for Dagalo, calling him a “fugitive criminal.”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres referred to as on the leaders of the RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces to “immediately cease hostilities.”
The African Union additionally issued an announcement urging “the political and military parties to find a fair political solution to the crisis.”
The General Command of the Sudanese Army issued an announcement calling on civilians to remain indoors as warplanes will probably be conducting sweeps in search of Rapid Support Forces.
“The Sudanese Air Force will conduct a complete sweep of the rebel Rapid Support militia’s presence. The Air Force calling on all citizens to stay inside their houses and not to go out,” the assertion mentioned.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned the “fragile” scenario comes amid negotiations over a civilian-led transition to revive civilian rule within the nation.
“The major parties in Khartoum, some weeks ago reached a very important framework agreement on how to proceed with a transition to civilian government. And there’s been real progress in trying to move that forward,” Blinken mentioned throughout a news convention in Vietnam.
“It’s a fragile situation. There are other actors that may be pushing against that progress. But this is a real opportunity to finally carry forward the civilian-led transition and one that we and other countries are trying to bolster,” the US high diplomat added.
Blinken additionally mentioned the scenario in a joint cellphone name with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah and his counterpart within the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in response to the Saudi Press Agency.
The dialogue emphasised the significance of stopping the navy escalation and returning to the framework settlement in a means that ensures the safety and stability of Sudan, it mentioned.
Khartoum’s State Security Committee late Saturday declared a public vacation within the capital “in order to preserve lives of citizens and their property.”
The navy has been in command of Sudan since a coup in 2021, with Burhan and Dagalo on the helm. The 2021 coup ended a power-sharing association, following the 2019 ouster of long-term former President Omar al-Bashir.
A Act Daily News investigation additionally uncovered one other hyperlink between the 2 males: their involvement in Russia’s exploitation of Sudan’s gold sources to fund its Ukraine warfare, with Dagalo’s forces additionally being key recipients of Russian coaching and weaponry.
But latest talks have led to cracks within the alliance between the 2 navy leaders. The negotiations have sought to combine the Rapid Support Forces into the nation’s navy, as a part of the trouble to transition to civilian rule.
Sources in Sudan’s civilian motion and Sudanese navy sources informed Act Daily News the details of competition included the timeline for the merger of the forces, the standing given to RSF officers sooner or later hierarchy, and whether or not RSF forces must be underneath the command of the military chief — somewhat than Sudan’s commander-in-chief — who’s at the moment Burhan.
The hostilities, sources informed Act Daily News, are the end result of what each events view as an existential struggle for dominance, one with Burhan, they mentioned, in search of assist from Sudan’s former Islamist rulers, resurrecting the specter of days many Sudanese fought to depart behind.
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