{"id":20072072,"date":"2024-02-13T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T10:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20072072"},"modified":"2024-04-16T14:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:12:39","slug":"sudan-army-and-rsf-will-continue-fighting-until-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-army-and-rsf-will-continue-fighting-until-victory","title":{"rendered":"Sudan army and RSF \u2018will continue fighting until victory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Battles between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continued in Khartoum state and West Kordofan yesterday. The SAF denied the occurrence of a coup within the army, while the RSF said it will step up its operations against the army. The US Ambassador to the United Nations has called for an immediate ceasefire.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continued fierce fighting<\/a> was reported from the Omdurman areas near the Engineers Corps in El Muhandisin, south of the El Shaabi Market, and the industrial zone yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio Dabanga received conflicting information about RSF control of the Engineers Corps and has not been able to verify the reports so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In central Khartoum, the RSF continued its shelling of the SAF General Command, as the army attacked RSF positions in southern Khartoum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sporadic clashes were reported from the Armoured Corps in El Shajara in western Khartoum and from El Kadaro and Hattab in Khartoum North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researcher Mohamed Abbas stated on February 4 that a \u201ccritical turning point in the Sudanese conflict\u201d has been reached as the SAF continued to gain ground<\/a> in Omdurman. The Sudan War Monitor said that day that these gains may be an \u201cover exaggeration and likely pro-SAF propaganda\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, SAF-RSF fighting in the town of Babanousa in West Kordofan also continued, aggravating the suffering of the people there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe communications blackout<\/a> enabled the belligerents to conceal their crimes against civilians,\u201d a local source told Radio Dabanga. \u201cWe have been cut off from the world for three days. Even the hospitals that are still open, are unable to provide services. Many patients have died.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018False claims\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The head of Sudan\u2019s Sovereignty Council and SAF Commander Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan denied the occurrence of a coup within the army during the past days. \u201cThese claims are false and delusional,\u201d he said in his address to members of the 19th Infantry Division in El Debba in Northern State on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Sudanese army has not been and will not be defeated,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThe nation\u2019s battle against the terrorist militia of [RSF Commander] Dagalo is a battle of dignity. The armed forces are not fighting alone. The Sudanese people are fighting with them, supporting them and rallying around them,\u201d he said, pledging to fight \u201cuntil victory, for the dignity of this people and their armed forces\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He accused the RSF of \u201ckilling and looting while asking organisations to provide humanitarian aid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYet, this will only happen after this war has stopped, and the criminal rebels have been defeated and have withdrawn from the homes of citizens, government and service institutions, and from all the cities they occupied and plundered, Nyala, El Geneina, Wad Madani, and Khartoum, and have returned all the loot\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018No peace\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSF Commander Lt Gen Mohamed \u2018Hemedti\u2019 Dagalo said in an audio recording yesterday evening that he left Khartoum two months ago \u201cto bring peace\u201d and accused the army of \u201cchoosing to continue the path of war\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end of December, he left Sudan to visit several African countries<\/a>, after the Horn of Africa Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) had convinced El Burhan to meet<\/a> face-to-face with Hemedti to discuss an end to the war \u2013 though the Sudanese Foreign Affairs Ministry denied the agreement<\/a> hours after IGAD announced the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hemedti said he would return to the battlefield soon, and congratulated the RSF soldiers on what he described as victories in El Mohandesin in Omdurman and Babanousa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RSF commander renewed his accusation of the army of starting the war, indicating that the RSF paramilitaries are only defending themselves. He called on his forces to step up combat operations. They should also protect civilians and share food and medicine with them. RSF members committing crimes against civilians are to be prosecuted immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Sanctions are not enough\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Linda Thomas Greenfield, US ambassador to the UN (File photo: UN)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Linda Thomas Greenfield, US ambassador to the UN, told the US National Public Radio (NPR)<\/a> after her recent visit to Darfur refugees in eastern Chad that \u201cthe most important step that any of us can take right now is to get these two generals to sit down at the negotiating table and negotiate a peaceful solution with civilians at the table with them\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked about the impact of the US sanctions imposed on some of Sudan’s warring parties\u2019 commercial companies, she said that \u201cI think the sanctions are having an impact on them. They certainly are aware. When I announced some of the visa restrictions when I was in Chad, they responded very, very quickly to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut again, as you’ve noted, it has not stopped them from trying to fight because they both think that there’s a military solution to this situation. And we know that the military will not be able to resolve this situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, we are working hard to push for negotiations, to push for more civilian engagement on this but at the same time trying to address the dire humanitarian situation<\/a> that Sudanese citizens are experiencing,\u201d the US ambassador to the UN stated.<\/p>\n