CAIRO: The head of the Sudanese military Rapid Support Forces admitted in a statement to soldiers on Sunday that the party had withdrawn from the cash Khartoum, which foe military forces have retaken.
The post from RSF chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo came three days after the team said there would be” no flee and no capitulation” and that its troops had “repositioned”, despite the military’s declaration on Thursday that the money was “free” of the separatists after nearly two years of war.
” I confirm to you that we have truly left Khartoum, but… we will transfer with yet stronger determination”, Daglo said in the statement posted to social media.
The conflict has created what the United Nations describes as the country’s worst poverty and movement problems. More than 12 million individuals have been uprooted, tens of thousands killed, and a UN-backed analysis declared malaria in parts of the country.
” All those who think that there are discussions or contracts in operation with this wicked movements are mistaken”, he continued, in reference to the troops. ” We have neither deal nor conversation with them– solely the speech of hands”.
Army captain Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Saturday even vowed not to back down, after a significant battle in which the infantry reclaimed the presidential house, the war-damaged airports and other important sites in the city centre.
” We will neither forgive, nor compromise, nor negotiate”, Burhan said, adding that victory would only be complete when” the last rebel has been eradicated from the last corner of Sudan”.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said Washington hoped to do more diplomatically to end the war in Sudan.
Rubio said he was “engaged” on Sudan and had discussed the war in recent days with international players including Kenyan President William Ruto and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Rubio’s predecessor Antony Blinken tried extensively to broker an end to the war but ultimately voiced disappointment at the failure to do so and accused both sides of committing atrocities.
The United States has imposed sanctions on both sides. It accused the army of attacks on civilians and said the RSF had” committed genocide” in the western region of Darfur.
The war has carved Sudan in two: the army holds sway in the east and north while the RSF controls most of Darfur in the west, and parts of the south.
