Our correspondent reported that sporadic clashes broke out between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in the airport street and in the Riyadh neighborhood in the center of the capital, Khartoum.
This came after Sudanese sources confirmed that the military launched raids on Rapid Support Forces locations in the capital.
In this context, the Sudanese Armed Forces announced in a statement that it had responded to an attack by a group of the Rapid Support Forces against the command of the Air Defense Forces, noting that there had been casualties among them during the clashes, in addition to the destruction of a number of their vehicles.
She added that the armed forces were able to kill a foreign sniper, whose nationality was not known, in the military district of Bahri.
The army’s general command confirmed that it was still monitoring a group of rapid support reinforcements launched a week ago from southern Darfur en route to the capital, Khartoum.
The Saudi American Initiative
The Saudi-American move in Jeddah is the first serious attempt to end the fighting since April 15, which has turned parts of Khartoum into war zones and endangered the country’s fragile political transition after years of unrest and of uprisings. Saudi Arabia and the United States welcomed the start of “initial talks” between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces, and urged both sides to seriously engage in these talks after violating several peace agreements. cease fire. Both sides confirmed that they would only discuss a humanitarian truce and not negotiate an end to the war. The tripartite mechanism (the African Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the United Nations) welcomed the Saudi-American initiative aimed at ending the conflict that has been raging in Sudan for weeks. The tripartite mechanism called on the parties to protect civilians and refrain from attacking health facilities and other civilian infrastructure, saying any further escalation in violence could be devastating for the country and the region.
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