The military doesn’t dispute RSF’s assertion, however says combating continues in Singa, the capital of Sennar state.
Paramilitary forces combating Sudan’s military for greater than a 12 months say they’ve captured a key state capital within the war-torn nation’s southeast.
“We’ve liberated the seventeenth Infantry Division from Singa [the capital of Sennar state]“, introduced the Fast Help Forces (RSF) in X on Saturday.
Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from the capital Khartoum, stated the RSF is gaining management of an growing variety of territories throughout Sudan, particularly within the jap and western components of the south of the nation.
“They already management a big a part of the Darfur area, excluding El Fasher, which is the one city nonetheless underneath the management of the military and allied teams,” he stated.
Morgan stated the Sudanese navy doesn’t dispute the RSF’s declare that it has taken management of the seventeenth Infantry Division.
“Nonetheless, they are saying that their forces are nonetheless current within the metropolis and that they’re nonetheless combating,” he stated. “What we are able to definitively verify is that civilians have witnessed clashes and lots of of them have began leaving town since yesterday. [Saturday] And increasingly more persons are leaving town. [Sunday] tomorrow.”
Hundreds of thousands of displaced folks
Sudan has been mired in struggle since April 2023, when combating broke out between forces loyal to military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
The battle within the nation of 48 million folks has killed tens of hundreds, displaced thousands and thousands and triggered one of many world’s worst humanitarian crises.
RSF’s newest advance means they’re closing in on Port Sudan on the Crimson Sea, the place the military, authorities and United Nations businesses at the moment are based mostly.
The RSF controls many of the capital Khartoum, central Gezira state, the huge western area of Darfur and far of southern Kordofan.
Sennar state, which connects central Sudan to the army-controlled southeast, is already dwelling to greater than one million displaced Sudanese.
Social media posts confirmed hundreds of individuals fleeing in automobiles and on foot, and witnesses instructed AFP information company that “hundreds of individuals have taken shelter” on the east financial institution of the Blue Nile River, east of Singa.
RSF forces are additionally besieging and attempting to seize the city of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, the company stated.
On Thursday, a physique that screens world starvation stated almost 26 million folks face excessive ranges of “acute meals insecurity” in Sudan.
