Witnesses said they heard the sound of army airstrikes against paramilitary RSF in several residential areas in southern Khartoum, including near Camp Taiba, as a reserve force of army-allied police fought. ground RSFs.
It was also possible to hear the sound of strikes on the other bank of the Nile, in the Eastern Nile region.
The army relies mainly on air power and heavy artillery in an attempt to push out the Rapid Support Forces, which have been deployed in large areas of Khartoum and the towns of Bahri and Omdurman, which are separated by the Nile from the capital, after the epidemic. of the battles of April 15.
exacerbation of the humanitarian crisis
Salah al-Din Othman, 35, a resident of Khartoum, said: “The shelling and clashes don’t stop, and there is not even room to flee our homes. All our money has run out and the monthly salaries have not been spent. “We fear that even if we leave our homes, gangs will come and loot everything in the house. We live in a nightmare of fear and poverty, there is no electricity and no government takes care of us. to witnesses, at a distance of 1,000 km west of Khartoum, in Nyala, one of the largest cities in Sudan and the capital of South Darfur State, in which tanks were heard for the first time since the announcement of the local truce. said armed gangs have started robbing in El-Obeid, another major town and trading center in North Kordofan state. It is believed that Sudanese army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Rapid Support Forces commander Lt. Gen. Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, remained in Khartoum throughout the fights.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the army released a video showing Al-Burhan, dressed in a military uniform, saluting the troops, apparently at the army headquarters in central Khartoum.
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