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Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces broke out across Sudan, with fighting reported at the presidential palace and the RSF headquarters.

Fighting was also reported in the Khartoum International Airport and Merowe Airport, both of which the RSF have claimed to have captured. Gunfire and clashes were also reported in sections of Khartoum, and El Obeid Airport in North Kordofan.

[Temt]

I never understood why this potential danger was ignored for so long. I can't help but wonder, had the shipwreck been in a non-Third World neighborhood, would the powers to be have taken the luxury of ignoring it for this long? I seriously doubt it. When one thinks about it, the potential disaster affects the international community whether it was on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea, or the Gulf of Mexico. But the racist self-centered Global North can't hide its built-in disdain for the Global South!

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Sudan’s army and rival force clash, wider conflict feared

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY

https://apnews.com/article/sudan-kharto ... b7337d7881

12 minutes ago


Smoke is seen rising from a neighborhood in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 15, 2023. Fierce clashes between Sudan’s military and the country’s powerful paramilitary erupted in the capital and elsewhere in the African nation after weeks of escalating tensions between the two forces. The fighting raised fears of a wider conflict in the chaos-stricken nation. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Fierce fighting erupted Saturday in Sudan’s capital between the military and the country’s powerful paramilitary force, raising fears of a wider conflict in the chaos-stricken country. A doctors’ group said at least three people were killed and dozens injured.

The clashes between the military and the Rapid Support Forces group capped months of heightened tensions between both sides that forced the delay of a deal https://apnews.com/article/sudan-democr ... b542424b8b with political parties to restore the country’s short-lived transition to democracy.

The sound of heavy firing could be heard across the capital, Khartoum, and its sister city of Omdurman, where both the military and the RSF have amassed tens of thousands of troops since an October 2021 military coup that derailed Sudan’s fragile path to democracy.

Residents described chaotic scenes in Khartoum and Omdurman as firing and explosions rang out in densely populated neighborhoods.

Fire and explosions are everywhere,

said Amal Mohamed, a doctor in a public hospital in Omdurman.

All are running and seeking shelter.

Another Khartoum resident, Abdel-Hamid Mustafa, said soldiers from both sides on armored trucks were seen firing at each other in the streets and residential areas.

We haven’t seen such battles in Khartoum before,

she said

One of the flashpoints was Khartoum International Airport, where clashes grounded commercial Sudan-bound flights from Saudi Arabia turned back after nearly landing at the airport, flight tracking data showed Saturday.

Saudi Arabia’s national airline said one of its Airbus A330 aircraft was involved in “an accident.” Video showed the plane on fire on the tarmac. Another plane also appeared to have caught fire in the attack. Flight-tracking website FlightRadar24 identified it as a SkyUp Airlines Boeing 737. SkyUp is a Kyiv, Ukraine-based airline. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate said two civilians were killed at the airport, without specifying the circumstances. The committee said in a statement that another man was shot to death in the state of North Kordofan.

Meanwhile, the BBC reported that a correspondent for BBC News Arabic in Khartoum, Mohamed Osman, was beaten by a Sudanese soldier. The broadcaster said the army had stopped Osman’s car while he was en route to his work and that he was taken to army headquarters in Omdurman. While explaining his movements to officers, he was hit in the head from behind by a soldier, the BBC said.

The fighting comes after months of escalating tensions between the generals and years of political unrest after an October 2021 military coup.




U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top diplomats expressed extreme concern over the outbreak of violence.

We urge all actors to stop the violence immediately and avoid further escalations or troop mobilizations and continue talks to resolve outstanding issues,

Blinken wrote on Twitter.

The European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell; the head of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat; and the Arab League chief, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, called for a cease-fire and for both parties to return to negotiations to settle their dispute.

The military and the RSF traded blame for triggering the clashes, which centered in Khartoum but also took place in other areas across the country including the Northern province, the conflict-ravaged Darfur region, and the strategic coastal city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea, a military official said.

Current tensions between the military and the paramilitary stem from a disagreement over how the RSF, headed by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, https://apnews.com/article/b5eba878a744 ... 4ec9231917 should be integrated into the military and what authority should oversee the process. The merger is a key condition of Sudan’s unsigned transition agreement with political groups.



The fighting began at a military base south of Khartoum, with both sides trading accusations of initiating an attack. Clashes then spread in many areas across the capital, including around the military’s headquarters, the airport and the Republican Palace, the seat of the country’s presidency.

Khartoum has become a battlefield,

said Tahani Abass, a prominent Sudanese rights advocate who lives close to the military’s headquarters.

The situation is very dire, and we don’t know when it will be ended.

The RSF alleged in a statement that its forces controlled many strategic places in Khartoum and the northern city of Merowe some 350 kilometers (215 miles) northwest of Khartoum. The military dismissed the claims as “lies.”

In a series of statements, the military also declared the RSF as a rebel force and unleashed the powerful air force against RSF positions in and around Khartoum.

Volker Perthes, the U.N. envoy for Sudan, urged both parties for

an immediate cessation of fighting to ensure the safety of the Sudanese people and to spare the country from further violence.

Perthes and Saudi Ambassador in Sudan, Ali Bin Hassan Jaffar, were leading communications with Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the country’s top military official, and Dagalo to embark on a dialogue to settle their dispute, said a U.N. official who asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates called on those fighting in Sudan to exercise restraint and work toward a political solution in the county.

The U.S. Ambassador to Sudan, John Godfrey, wrote online that he was

currently sheltering in place with the Embassy team, as Sudanese throughout Khartoum and elsewhere are doing.

He urged bother sides to cease fire.

Escalation of tensions within the military component to direct fighting is extremely dangerous,

Godfrey wrote.

I urgently call on senior military leaders to stop the fighting.

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Magdy reported from Cairo.

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Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates contributed to this report.

[eritrea]

What the hell is going on in Khartoum? I knew all along that something would flare up specially with the announcment of Russian agreement with Sudan. But never like this...so he is the bad guy and good guy in this conflict between the sudaness one may ask.

[Weyane.is.dead]

It looks like the parasite burhan who is the Egyptian's and by extension the US's lap dog is trying to destabilize our region. He was acting as a conduit for Egypt to arm tplf vermin while at the same time opening a new front against Ethiopia to give tplf a breezing space. He is also behind the recent arrests of Eritreans and Ethiopians.
Hemditi the leader of RSF is now taking on the traitor and on the verge of executing a coup detat. Many Egyptian fa.ggits have been apprehended. Let Ethiopia fill the dam and over flow it destroying the ungrateful degenerate Egyptians who dream of keep Africa divide and poor.

What the hell is going on in Khartoum? I knew all along that something would flare up specially with the announcment of Russian agreement with Sudan. But never like this...so he is the bad guy and good guy in this conflict between the sudaness one may ask.

[Weyane.is.dead]

It looks like the parasite burhan who is the Egyptian's and by extension the US's lap dog is trying to destabilize our region. He was acting as a conduit for Egypt to arm tplf vermin while at the same time opening a new front against Ethiopia to give tplf a breezing space. He is also behind the recent arrests of Eritreans and Ethiopians.
Hemditi the leader of RSF is now taking on the traitor and on the verge of executing a coup detat. Many Egyptian fa.ggits have been apprehended. Let Ethiopia fill the dam and over flow it destroying the ungrateful degenerate Egyptians who dream of keep Africa divided and poor.

What the hell is going on in Khartoum? I knew all along that something would flare up specially with the announcment of Russian agreement with Sudan. But never like this...so he is the bad guy and good guy in this conflict between the sudaness one may ask.

[Weyane.is.dead]

It looks like the parasite burhan who is the Egyptian's and by extension the US's lap dog is trying to destabilize our region. He was acting as a conduit for Egypt to arm tplf vermin while at the same time opening a new front against Ethiopia to give tplf a breezing space. He is also behind the recent arrests of Eritreans and Ethiopians.
Hemditi the leader of RSF is now taking on the traitor and on the verge of executing a coup detat. Many Egyptian fa.ggits have been apprehended. Let Ethiopia fill the dam and over flow it destroying the ungrateful degenerate Egyptians who dream of keep Africa divided and poor.

What the hell is going on in Khartoum? I knew all along that something would flare up specially with the announcment of Russian agreement with Sudan. But never like this...so he is the bad guy and good guy in this conflict between the sudaness one may ask.

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Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (aka Himedti) speaking to @SkyNewsArabia_B

The Rapid Support Forces control 90% of the military areas, in Sudan. I'm speaking to you in front of the HQ of the General Command of Sudan's Armed Forces & my forces are inside.

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https://t.me/cheburashkas_war_room/13360