Khartoum (EFE) , and to continue with the attacks despite the entry into force of the armistice.
“We agreed on a truce yesterday Thursday that began at midnight, however, the coup leaders of the Armed Forces (…) violated the truce starting this morning with their attacks against positions of our forces with planes and artillery at the foot of Mount Awliaa and in Umdurman,” the FAR denounced in a statement today.
They also pointed out that Army planes continue to fly over the capital and adjacent cities, something that according to the paramilitaries “hinders the movement of diplomatic missions that are working to evacuate their citizens.”
For its part, the Army said in another statement that the FAR has been launching attacks since this morning against its units in Jabal Awliya, some 40 kilometers south of Khartoum, but that these have been “successfully” repelled.
According to the note, the soldiers have “inflicted heavy losses and destroyed several vehicles” of the FAR, which “is being crushed on the spot.”
Facilitate evacuations
Sudan today entered the fourteenth consecutive day of clashes between the Army and the FAR despite the entry into force of an extension of the 72-hour truce agreed to facilitate the evacuations of foreigners and to open humanitarian corridors for the movement of Sudanese to safer areas.
So far, none of the announced truces have been fully respected by the parties, while multiple attempts at mediation have failed.
The fighting broke out on April 15 in the midst of a political process to put an end to the coup d’état carried out jointly in 2021 by the FAR and the Army and put the African country back on the democratic path.
So far, the conflict has caused the death of more than 512 civilians and injured more than 4,000, according to the Sudanese Ministry of Health, which points out that the number of victims could be much higher.