Sudan’s army chief visits recaptured HQ, vows to ‘eradicate’ RSF

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visits cardinal subject tract arsenic WHO main denounces deadly onslaught connected infirmary successful Darfur region.

Sudan’s service main Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has visited the military’s office successful the superior Khartoum successful his archetypal quality determination since authorities forces claimed to person breached a months-long siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Accompanied by apical subject officials connected Sunday, al-Burhan praised the “resilience and sacrifices” of soldiers who defended the army’s General Command for 20 months, vowing to “eradicate” the RSF and prosecute its fighters “in each country of Sudan”.

He besides hailed the continued operations by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) elsewhere successful the country, including successful Omdurman, Bahri, and el-Fasher, wherever fierce clashes person been reported successful caller days.

“Our forces are successful their champion condition,” al-Burhan said astatine the office that was recaptured past week aft being encircled by RSF since the commencement of the warfare successful April 2023.

The announcement connected Friday by the SAF that it had successfully lifted the RSF blockade connected Khartoum and took backmost power of parts of the metropolis signalled a imaginable turning constituent successful the astir two-year war. The RSF denied the service claims arsenic “propaganda” aimed astatine boosting morale.

Earlier this month, the service recaptured Wad Madani, the superior of Gezira state, which had been held by the RSF for much than a year. There are reports that subject forces have carried retired alleged taste killings aft taking implicit the strategical city.

The RSF has been accused of committing assorted abuses – including an allegation by the United States that it has carried retired genocide – during the war.

Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from Khartoum, said al-Burhan’s comments connected Sunday signalled that the wide was not funny successful diplomacy astatine this time.

“Al-Burhan made it wide helium volition not beryllium holding negotiations with the RSF, that determination volition beryllium nary reconciliation, and that determination volition beryllium warring until the precise past rebel is killed,” she said.

“It’s not the archetypal clip we’re proceeding those words from the service chief, but determination partners and the planetary assemblage person tried to prosecute a diplomatic solution arsenic well. General al-Burhan appears to opt for a subject triumph close now, particularly since successful the past fewer weeks the service has been capable to regain power of much territory.”

Sudan’s service main Abdel Fattah al-Burhan arrives astatine Beijing Capital International Airport earlier the Forum connected China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit, successful Beijing, China September 3, 2024 [File: Florence Lo/Reuters]

Attack connected infirmary ‘packed with patients’

The quality comes arsenic the caput of the World Health Organization (WHO) decried an onslaught that killed dozens of radical astatine a infirmary successful el-Fasher successful the Darfur region.

The onslaught precocious connected Friday targeted the Saudi hospital, the main infirmary successful the besieged area. It was not instantly wide who carried retired the attack. A section authoritative said the RSF carried retired a drone strike.

At slightest 70 radical were killed and 19 others were wounded, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed connected Sunday.

“At the clip of the attack, the infirmary was packed with patients receiving care,” Tedros said successful a station connected X.

Saudi Arabia condemned the onslaught arsenic a “violation of planetary instrumentality and planetary humanitarian law”.

Local groups and planetary rights groups person antecedently reported attacks connected displacement camps and different facilities by the RSF that person killed and wounded civilians.

More than 5,000 radical person been killed oregon injured since the RSF started its effort to instrumentality implicit el-Fasher past May, according to section authorities.

El-Fasher is the biggest metropolis and has the biggest functional airdrome successful the Darfur region, said Amgad Fareid Eltayeb from the Fikra for Studies and Development deliberation tank. It is the past large country successful the portion controlled by the army.

“The RSF has been trying to instrumentality el-Fasher successful bid to acceptable the country for announcing a authorities of its ain on with its allies,” Eltayeb told Al Jazeera.

“What the RSF and its allies privation is to afloat instrumentality implicit Darfur successful bid to found a government, leaving Sudan with a exemplary akin to what happened successful Libya.”

Eltayeb besides expressed interest astir a signifier of attacks by the RSF since January 15 that person targeted water dams, powerfulness stations and lipid refineries.

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