2023-08-02 11:38:46
The office of the official spokesman for the Rapid Support Forces warned, on Wednesday, in a statement, of “a harbinger of civil war between the components of eastern Sudan, whose features began to emerge through the arming of some tribes over others.”
The statement stated that this “threatens the social fabric, which was already suffering from accumulated tension and is now liable to flare up once more following the availability of all factors that help in the outbreak of conflict.”
The office added that “the public movements and meetings held by the leaders of the National Congress in eastern Sudan, with the knowledge and coordination of the leaders of the armed forces and under the protection of military intelligence and state governments, clearly reveal the size of the conspiracy once morest the Sudanese people, of which the ongoing war is only the beginning.”
And he continued: “It was no secret to anyone that the general mobilization decision issued by Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, opening camps for extremist militias and arming them all took place under direct orders from the leadership of the defunct regime, which now controls the course of affairs within the armed forces and the running of all state institutions.”
The ongoing war, without any prospect of a solution, has resulted in thousands of deaths so far in Sudan, amid very tragic living and health conditions.
The horizon of a political solution is threatened
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sudan blamed the Rapid Support Forces for the stumbling of the Jeddah talks aimed at ending the war that has been going on in the country for months. The ministry said that the reason for the faltering of the negotiations sponsored by Saudi Arabia and the United States was the “intransigence of the Tamer Forces,” referring to the Rapid Support Forces. The commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, demanded that his opponents in the army command step down, in order to “allow an opportunity to end the fighting that has been going on for 3 months.” In a 5-minute video published on Friday, Daglo is believed to be his first since the outbreak of battles with the army on April 15, to the Sudanese soldiers, saying that peace can be achieved “within 72 hours” if they hand over their leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his aides.
Difficult living conditions
The World Food Program has warned that 19 million people, or regarding 40 percent of Sudan’s population, will slip into a circle of hunger, following months of battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, without a horizon for a sustainable cessation of the fighting. Since the outbreak of the war in mid-April, the features of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis are taking shape due to the catastrophic repercussions resulting from the ongoing battles in the three cities of the capital, the Darfur region and a number of regions of Kordofan state. The prices of some basic food commodities have increased by more than 3 times, due to the interruption of supply chains and the closure of most distribution markets in Khartoum.
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