KHARTOUM, Sudan
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Monday exchanged violent artillery bombardment in the vicinity of the army's General Command, according to eyewitnesses.
The RSF launched a violent
artillery attack on the army's General Command from its bases in south of the
Sudanese capital Khartoum, eyewitnesses said.
Video clips published by local
media show smoke columns rising from around the army's General Command in
central Khartoum as a result of the clash.
Over the past 10 days, the RSF
has been launching missile attacks towards the army's General Command from its
bases in eastern and southern Khartoum.
"The clashes have
intensified between the two sides for the tenth day around the army's General
Command with sounds of strong explosions heard amid rising columns of smoke
from the area," the independent Sudan Tribune news portal reported on
Monday.
The SAF, in turn, responded
with fierce artillery strikes on a number of neighborhoods in the eastern Nile
area in Bahri city, where the RSF fighters are heavily deployed, according to
the eyewitnesses.
"The SAF has launched
drone attacks on RSF positions south of Khartoum," an eyewitness who
requires anonymity told Xinhua.
People walk in the Metche
camp, where around 40,000 people are currently living in Metche, Chad,
September 20, 2023. /CFP
In the meantime, the emergency
room of Al-Jarif Sharq district, a northern Khartoum suburb, said in a
statement that the area had come under violent bombardment, calling on the
residents to remain inside their homes and stay away from doors and windows.
The RSF, for its part, said in
a statement on Monday that it had shot down a MIG warplane of the army,
accusing the SAF of "exercising a scorched earth policy" by
deliberately bombing residential neighborhoods, markets, and vital facilities
in the capital and cities of Darfur and Kordofan states, causing deaths and
injuries among thousands of innocent civilians.
Sudan has been witnessing deadly
clashes between the SAF and the RSF in Khartoum and other areas since April 15,
resulting in at least 3,000 deaths and more than 6,000 injuries, according to
figures released by the Sudanese Health Ministry.
According to the latest report
by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA), some 5.3 million people have been displaced inside and outside Sudan.
Over one million people have
crossed into neighboring countries, including the Central African Republic,
Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan, OCHA said.
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