April 17, 202306:26
The health facilities are located near “strategic scenes” of the ongoing conflict between the army and paramilitary forces. The army regains control of state television
In Sudan The clash between the army and the paramilitaries, which has been going on for three days, has already claimed almost 200 lives and threatens to escalate dramatically. The military was able to announce the retake of state television, but reports of success from both sides make it difficult to determine who actually has the upper hand on the ground. The death toll of more than 180 dead and 1,800 injured civilians and soldiers belongs to the United Nations special envoy in the country, Volker Perthes. In the meantime, the doctors have appealed because the hospitals in Khartoum, located “near key strategic locations” of the ongoing conflict are no more bombed and can continue to be operated.
Battle rages in Khartoum Airstrikes, shelling and surface-to-surface missile fire continued to erupt in central Khartoum Monday morning, with cluster bullets hitting more and more civilians. Two hospitals hit by rockets and shells were evacuated.
Civil war Since Saturday, civil war has been plaguing General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan’s armed forces and de facto president of the large East African country, and his deputy, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) chief Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as ” Hemedti”: After ousting civilians from power together with the coup in October 2021, the two have been at odds for months, primarily over the timing and methods of admitting the RSF into the army. From an examination of the available elements, the conflict emerges as a life-or-death struggle for power between the armed forces and the paramilitaries, and the most obvious role played by Wagner’s Russian mercenaries is initially confined to the gold business of former camel trader Give him.
Call for a truce Without taking sides, US and UK foreign secretaries Antony Blinken and James Cleverly on the fringes of the G7 in Japan called on the two rivals in the former British colony to “stop violence immediately” and return to the negotiating table. An “appeal to the leaders of the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces to cease hostilities immediately” and “to begin a dialogue to resolve the crisis” also came from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in line with the Arab League.
The army regains control of state television The military was able to broadcast that “the military managed to regain control of the national broadcaster after repeated attempts by militias to destroy its infrastructure”. Burhan made a spokesman promise the paramilitaries that there would be no consequences if they joined the armed forces.
The “Devils on Horseback” On Twitter, Dagalo instead appealed to the “international community” to take “action against the crimes” of al-Burhan, “a radical Islamist who bombs civilians” and hopes to “keep Sudan isolated and away from democracy.” His self-proclaimed rights advocate clashes with Hemedti’s past: he was commander of one of the numerous Arab militias known collectively as the Janjaweed, those infamous “devils on horseback” that employed the government of then-autocrat Omad al-Bashir in the 2000s to crack down on rebel groups in Darfur. Burhan was also involved in the civil war.
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