Clashes between the Sudanese Army and the powerful Rapid Support Forces (FAR) paramilitary group continued this Sunday morning in the vicinity of the Armed Forces headquarters, in downtown Khartoum, and other locations in Sudan.
According to EFE, the clashes continued for the second day in the capital, after breaking out on Saturday morning after the FAR accused the Army of attacking their positions, an action that the Armed Forces indicated was in response to an attack.
In two days of fighting, at least 56 civilians have been killed and nearly 600 – also among the ranks of the warring parties – have been injured, the Sudanese Central Committee of Doctors reported.
“We call for the predominance of the voice of reason and the immediate ceasefire of the absurd fire, which claimed the lives of innocent and unarmed civilians, and safe-conduct must be opened to evacuate the detainees, stranded and wounded to provide them with first aid” the organization said.
These figures, however, do not include casualties in the troubled western region of Darfur, where there is heavy fighting in Al Fasher and Nyala, as well as in Al Obeid, in North Kordofan state, due to difficulties of movement in those zones.
The African country, on the brink of the conflict escalating into war, woke up to military planes flying over central Khartoum and other points east and south of the capital, while clashes continued in other towns across the country.
Army spokesman Nabil Abdullah said in a statement that the army seized control of the Rapid Support Forces’ largest base in the Karari area, north of the town of Omdurman, and seized all equipment belonging to the paramilitaries.
Likewise, the military also took control of up to 35 FAR armored vehicles in the city of Damazin, in southeastern Sudan.
The determining point of the conflict between the rival military after weeks of tension occurred yesterday when the FAR accused the Sudanese Army of launching an action against one of its bases in Khartoum, while the Armed Forces assured that they carried it out in response to an attack that the FAR had previously carried out in the Sudanese capital.
These clashes occurred just two days after the Army warned that the country is going through a “dangerous situation” that could lead to armed conflict, after FAR units “mobilized” in the Sudanese capital and other cities. without the consent or coordination of the Armed Forces.
This mobilization occurred in the midst of negotiations to reach a definitive political agreement that would put an end to the 2021 coup and lead Sudan to a democratic transition, a pact whose signing has been postponed twice this April precisely because of the tensions and rivalries between the Army and the FAR.
