Reports about ‘intense airstrikes’ on RSF sites in central Sudan

Sources in Khartoum, El Gezira, and Sennar told Radio Dabanga that the intense aerial bombardments on sites and convoys of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) witnessed yesterday continued this morning. RSF soldiers raided Bara in North Kordofan yesterday. Other paramilitaries plundered the University of El Gezira.

In Khartoum state, the area of the general command of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in central Khartoum, the Armoured Corps in El Shajara along the White Nile, neighbourhoods in southern Khartoum, and the Signal Corps area in Khartoum North witnessed an exchange of artillery shelling between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF today.

Eyewitnesses said that they heard strong explosions and columns of smoke rising heavily from the army command.

Sudanese army drones targeted RSF sites in El Medina El Riyadiya and Soba in south east Khartoum and near the El Shajara Armoured Corps yesterday.

Yesterday evening, warplanes bombed RSF sites in Kafouri in Khartoum North.

The Sudanese air force also carried out intense airstrikes on alleged RSF sites in the El Gezira capital Wad Madani and the northern part of Sennar.

The Wad Madani Resistance Committees said that warplanes bombed targets in the vicinity of the First Infantry Division Command in the city, in addition to the Wad Madani Grand Market.

Listeners in the vicinity of Wad Abbas village in northeast Sennar reported that airstrikes targeted RSF vehicles in the area.

The RSF took control of El Gezira on December 18, after four days of fighting with SAF forces near Wad Madani.

The city of Nyala, capital of South Darfur that fell to the RSF in end October, witnessed heavy aerial bombardments, reportedly with barrel bombs, mid-December and again on December 29. At least 120 people were killed that day.

Bara raided

An RSF unit attacked Bara in North Kordofan yesterday.

Residents of the Bara told Radio Dabanga that “30 heavily armoured vehicles stormed the town and took control of the police station”.

Tensions rose in Bara and villages east of the town after popular resistance groups killed three RSF paramilitaries in the area last week. “These tensions will remain until a previous agreement with the RSF about a withdrawal from the town is renewed,” one of the sources said.

Yesterday, various compounds of El Gezira University were looted yesterday.

Witnesses reported that the Nashishiba, Edadaiya, Hantoub, Abu Haraz compounds, and the El Hasaheisa College of Education were raided by RSF elements. The university’s savings bank and its branches, the International Hall, and offices of the college administration in addition to the university’s farm were all plundered, the sources said.