2023-04-21 10:23:16
AA / Khartoum / Omer Erdem
In Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been fighting the army since April 15, announced a 72-hour ceasefire from the first day of Eid.
“The ceasefire coincides with Eid al-Fitr. A 72-hour ceasefire will be observed from 6 a.m. local time on the first day of Eid to open corridors humanitarian aid for the evacuation of citizens and to allow them to reunite with their families,” the FSR announced on Twitter on Friday.
After Eid prayers, gunfire continued to ring out in Khartoum despite the announcement of a ceasefire.
On Thursday night, sounds of clashes echoed in many neighborhoods of the capital, Khartoum. Homes and workplaces were heavily damaged and fires broke out in some buildings.
Clashes erupted on the morning of Saturday April 15 between the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces in many neighborhoods of Khartoum and other areas outside the capital.
Tension had been latent for weeks once morest a backdrop of rivalry between the two generals behind the October 2021 putsch, General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, known as “Hemetti”, and Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane, head of the army. and de facto ruler of Sudan since the coup.
The fighting returned to the seventh day claimed at least 300 victims, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
* Translated from Turkish by Alex Sinhan Bogmis
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