Clashes renewed in the vicinity of the presidential palace in Sudan this Saturday morning, as violent battles broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
Al-Jazeera correspondent pointed out that successive sounds of heavy weapons were heard in the center of Khartoum and the vicinity of the presidential palace, amid the Sudanese army’s accusation of what it described as the rebels of continuing to violate the armistice, which required military action by the army with these violations.
The Sudanese army accused the Rapid Support Forces of assassinating and kidnapping a number of retired officers of the armed forces, police and security, while the statements of the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Army, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and the Commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), regarding the negotiation process, differed, according to Al Jazeera Net.
Different positions of negotiation:
The Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Army, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, said yesterday that it is not possible to sit with whom he described as the militia leader, because he is leading a rebellion that must be resolved.
The Sudanese Armed Forces quoted Al-Burhan as saying that 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 the entire Sudanese people, as he put it, adding that what he called it is not possible. "tribal militia" – referring to the Rapid Support Forces – to talk about democracy and civil transformation, stressing that the army controls all of Sudan except for a few outposts in Darfur that will be resolved soon, according to him.
On the other hand, the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Muhammad Hamdan Hamidati, said that he is ready to conduct negotiations with the army commander, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, on the condition that the fighting stops first, adding in a press interview yesterday that he is looking forward to forming a fully civilian government today before tomorrow, as he put it, stressing that it is not He has disagreements with Burhan.
In response to a question about who fired the first bullet in the current confrontations, Hemedti 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 ten o’clock in the morning and sign the final agreement, he said.
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