The military doesn’t dispute RSF’s assertion, however says the preventing is ongoing in Singa, the capital of Sennar state.
Paramilitary forces battling Sudan’s military for greater than a yr say they’ve captured a key state capital within the war-torn nation’s southeast.
“We now have liberated the seventeenth Infantry Division from Singa [the capital of Sennar state],” the Speedy Assist Forces (RSF) introduced on X on Saturday.
Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from the capital Khartoum, mentioned the RSF is gaining management of an growing variety of territories throughout Sudan, particularly in japanese and western components of the nation’s south.
“They already management a big portion of the Darfur area, excluding el-Fasher, which is the one remaining metropolis beneath the military’s and allied teams’ management,” she mentioned.
Morgan mentioned the Sudanese military doesn’t dispute the RSF’s assertion that it has taken management of the seventeenth Infantry Division.
“Nonetheless, they are saying their forces are nonetheless current within the metropolis and they’re nonetheless preventing,” she mentioned. “What we are able to undoubtedly verify is civilians have witnessed clashes and plenty of of them have began leaving the town since yesterday [Saturday] and extra individuals are leaving the town this [Sunday] morning.”
Tens of millions displaced
Sudan has been gripped by struggle since April 2023, when preventing erupted 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 has killed tens of hundreds, displaced tens of millions and triggered one of many world’s worst humanitarian crises.
The newest RSF breakthrough means they’re closing in on Port Sudan on the Purple Sea, the place the military, authorities and the United Nations businesses at the moment are based mostly.
The RSF controls a lot of the capital Khartoum, Gezira state within the centre of the nation, the huge western area of Darfur and far of Kordofan to the south.
Sennar state is already house to a couple of million displaced Sudanese. It connects central Sudan to the army-controlled southeast.
Posts on social media confirmed hundreds of individuals fleeing in autos and on foot, and witnesses informed the AFP information company that “hundreds of individuals have taken refuge” on the east financial institution of the Blue Nile river east of Singa.
RSF forces are additionally besieging and looking for to seize the city of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, the company mentioned.
On Thursday, a world starvation monitor mentioned practically 26 million individuals are going through excessive ranges of “acute meals insecurity” in Sudan.
