Khartoum (EFE).- The clashes between the Sudanese Army and the powerful paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR) continued today in Khartoum, where shots and explosions were heard.
Exactly two weeks after the clashes that have not stopped despite the entry into force of multiple truces, the center of Khartoum was once again the scene of explosions and exchanges of fire between the opposing sides, according to EFE.
Fighting intensified around the perimeter of the Presidential Palace, the headquarters of Army leader General Abdelfatah al Burhan.
This building and the headquarters of the Army Operations Command, controlled by the Armed Forces, have been the subject of dispute since the first day of the conflict, while the FAR have announced on several occasions their takeover, denied by Al Burhan’s forces.
The artillery shots also resounded in the once-busy street of Al Setin, in the east of the capital, while witnesses informed EFE that Army combat planes flew over and bombarded the east of the Nile since early this morning, where there are established paramilitary positions.
They also indicated that in the town of Umdurman, neighboring Khartoum, aviation has been flying over the Salha area, where one of the FAR bases is located.
broken truces
Sudan lives the fifteenth day of fighting despite the entry into force of a truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia to guarantee security in evacuations and allow the entry of humanitarian aid.
Both sides have accused each other of violating the ceasefire, despite the fact that both the Army and the FAR today reaffirmed their commitment to the cessation of hostilities.
No armistice has been fully respected so far.
The Armed Forces, for their part, indicated that they can finish off the FAR “soon”, since, unlike the paramilitaries, they have air vehicles and a much larger arsenal of long-range weapons.
However, they denounce that the paramilitaries, specialized in the guerrilla, have entered densely populated urban areas, so it is not possible to bombard if the lives of civilians and the integrity of the vital infrastructure are to be preserved.
So far, according to the Sudanese Ministry of Health, more than 500 people have died and more than 4,000 have been injured in the fighting, which began on the 15th after a power struggle broke out for military control of Sudan between Al Burhan and the leader of the FAR, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias Hemedti.
A civil war in Sudan will be a global “nightmare”
Former Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalá Hamdok, who was overthrown in the October 2021 coup, warned today that if the conflict that is shaking his country degenerates into a civil war, this scenario will become a “nightmare” for the international community. .
The former president stressed that the “number one priority” is that “this war has to stop” because, if that goal is not achieved, it will have many “ramifications.”