Hundreds of residents of the Jabra neighborhood, south of Khartoum, were displaced on Sunday due to the intensification of fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, which forced some to leave their homes, witnesses said.
The war broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces on April 15, and was concentrated in the capital, its suburbs, and the Darfur region in the west of the country.
“The Rapid Support Forces asked us to leave the neighborhood under the pretext that the area has become an area of operations,” a resident of Jabra told AFP on Sunday, on condition of anonymity.
Fawzi Radwan, who has been guarding his family’s house since the morning, reported: “Specialists from the Rapid Support Forces knocked on the door of the house and asked me to leave the area within 24 hours.”
Residents of the Sahafa neighborhood near Jabra were also forced to leave, due to the ongoing violence.
Street warfare.. and shelling
The Jabra neighborhood, which includes one of the headquarters of the Rapid Support Forces, is located near the al-Shajara area, where the headquarters of the armored corps of the army is located, and its surroundings are witnessing violent clashes between the two parties. In the western suburb of Greater Khartoum, Omdurman, witnesses reported that clashes with various types of weapons took place in the popular market area in the center of Omdurman, and in Al-Shanqeeti Street to the north. In the western Darfur region, clashes took place in the city of Zalingei, the capital of Central Darfur state. A military source told “Agence France Presse”: “Our forces (referring to the army) killed 16 rebels (referring to the Rapid Support Forces) and captured 14, including an officer.” The city of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, witnessed clashes between the two parties, as shells fell on civilian homes, according to residents. Issa Adam, a resident of Nyala who was displaced from his home to Kalma camp, one of the largest camps for the displaced in the country, told “Agence France Presse” by phone: “We abandoned our homes because of the repeated shelling on them. Now we are in the open in the rainy season.”
Catastrophic economic repercussions of 100 days of war in Sudan
Thousands dead and millions displaced
The ongoing war, without any prospect of a solution, has killed at least 3,900 people so far, according to the non-governmental organization “Aclide”, knowing that medical sources confirm that the actual toll is much higher.
And on Friday, the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, demanded that his opponents in the army command step down, in order to “allow an opportunity to end the fighting,” which has been going on for more than 3 months.
The two parties to the conflict concluded more than one armistice, often with the mediation of Saudi Arabia and the United States, but it was soon broken.
Sudan, with an estimated population of 48 million, is one of the poorest countries in the world, even before the outbreak of the current conflict, which prompted about 3.5 million people to flee, more than 700,000 of whom left the country, especially to neighboring countries.
2023-07-30 17:03:48
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