{"id":20062772,"date":"2023-12-15T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20062772"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:33:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:33:44","slug":"sudan-battles-fighting-renews-in-khartoum-north-omdurman-activists-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-battles-fighting-renews-in-khartoum-north-omdurman-activists-attacked","title":{"rendered":"Sudan battles: fighting renews in Khartoum North, Omdurman activists attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Battles between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) renewed in Khartoum yesterday, with heavy clashes reported in several areas of Khartoum North. The El Gamayer Emergency Room in Omdurman was attacked and threatened multiple times by the RSF earlier this week. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In western Khartoum, witnesses reported heavy artillery shelling by the RSF near the El Shajara military complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fierce fighting also took place near the Signal Corps in Khartoum North (Khartoum Bahri).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A SAF source told Radio Dabanga that El Kadaro and El Doroshab in Khartoum North \u201care now free of any RSF presence\u201d, adding that water and electricity facilities were restored in both areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An RSF source, however, denied a SAF advance on Khartoum North, and said that heavy battles broke out near the Halfaya bridge and in El Kadaro on Wednesday. \u201cThe attacking SAF force lost the battle and endured heavy losses\u201d, the source claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSF troops are reportedly “stealing anything they can lay their hands on” including property and cars from Khartoum residents, with some burying their cars as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ransacked<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The El Gamayer Emergency Room in old Omdurman reported in a statement yesterday that \u201cthe RSF attacked the emergency room premises on Monday, ransacked supplies, medicines, money, and phones, scattered documents, and detained volunteer El Mubasher El Jak until Tuesday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The emergency room was attacked again on Tuesday and Wednesday, \u201cthis time they vandalised windows and chairs, and threatened to detain members of the emergency room and cooperating locality members\u201d. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudan Emergency Lawyers member Rehab Mubarak deplored the deaths of 112 people due to aerial bombardment last week, \u201cincluding more than 70 victims in the Kandahar and Libya market bombings<\/a> in Omdurman\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to Fadwa Khazraji<\/a> of El Jareeda<\/em> newspaper, the lawyer added that the December 10 attack<\/a> on an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convoy, which killed two people, \u201chalted a mission to rescue 100 civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ICRC is shocked and appalled by a deliberate attack on its humanitarian convoy in Khartoum (Sudan) on Sunday.

Read more: https:\/\/t.co\/jVz9nMSBEW<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/utEO20zFgC<\/a><\/p>— ICRC (@ICRC) December 10, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>