The leader of the Sudanese army, Abdelfatah al-Burhan, announced this Saturday that, in the next few hours, the withdrawal of citizens and foreign diplomats from Khartoum was scheduled, but the resumption of fighting, however, could make all operations unfeasible.
Before the fighting resumed, on the second day of the truce, al-Burhan had assured that the withdrawal, by air, of American, British, French, Chinese and other nationalities and diplomats was scheduled for today, with Saudi Arabia and Jordan managed to get their fellow citizens out by land.
However, clashes between rival soldiers resumed today in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, near the presidential palace and the Army General Command, while a projectile hit a residential neighborhood, killing six people, according to the agency. Spanish EFE. sources and witnesses.
The spokesman for the Sudanese Red Crescent, Osama Abu Bakr, told the Efe agency that he had received information that six people had died in the Mansura area, in Um Durman, a neighboring region of Khartoum, when a projectile hit their homes. this morning.
In addition, explosions were heard in the areas of Hilah Hamad and Hilah Joyaly, north of the Presidential Palace, as well as the flight of combat planes in the sky of the capital, despite the declaration of a ceasefire between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitaries. Group Support Center (FAR).
The two belligerents accepted on Friday the truce proposed by the UN to stop fighting for three days, coinciding with the end of the holy month of Ramadan, although it was not respected, as were the other four humanitarian pauses declared since the 15th of this month. . , day of the beginning of the conflict.
On the other hand, witnesses informed Efe that new intense confrontations took place in the center of Khartoum, in the vicinity of the area of the General Command of the Army, an area that military units announced yesterday that they had taken control.
The situation on the ground is now confused, especially after both the Sudanese army and the FAR announced that they would facilitate the departure of foreign nationals.
The confusion is made even worse as intermittent clashes are also taking place in the southern neighborhoods of the capital, on the outskirts of the Sports City and, above all, on the road to Khartoum airport.
On Friday night, the FAR announced in a statement that they were willing to partially open all the country’s airports so that foreign governments could withdraw their citizens, adding that they will “cooperate, coordinate and provide” all the facilities to allow the expatriates and members of diplomatic missions to leave the country “peacefully”.
In this context, it is unknown who controls what in the capital, since both parties claim to have control over the same facilities, such as the Khartoum international airport, the largest in Sudan, which, according to EFE, remains closed. .
The fighting between the Sudanese Army and the powerful FAR paramilitary group began on the 15th of this month, despite several attempts at a humanitarian truce and after weeks of tension over the reform of the Sudanese forces in the negotiations for the formation of a new government of transition.
According to the latest count from the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 413 people have been killed and 3,551 injured in Sudan since the conflict began.
Source: TSF
