MORE than 200 people have been killed and more than 1 800 injured as the fighting within Sudan’s security forces continued in several densely populated cities. The figures were announced in a press conference given by Volker Perthes, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, this week.
The highest number of deaths have been reported in the capital Khartoum City, where Sudan’s powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is trying to capture key areas and infrastructure from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).
Led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemeti, the deputy chairperson of the military junta ruling since the coup in October 2021, the RSF is battling the army for the Presidential Palace, the HQ of SAF, the airport, as well as other key areas in the capital.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by the junta’s chairperson and army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is fighting back and has, in turn, launched its own offensive on bases of the paramilitary in Khartoum and other cities. Both sides have made competing claims about controlling key infrastructures.
“The SAF forced the RSF out
