Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
| More on this story from yesterday. |
The army uses helicopters and aircraft against the rebels. Dozens of people died in the city. In the photo - the apartment of the Sudanese special forces forces is on fire, which was hit by a missile attack https://t.me/boris_rozhin/83008 (video of the strike). At least two airliners were destroyed at Sudan's international airport. Several Egyptian MiG-29s were also captured and Egyptian pilots were also arrested.
The showdown is going on between the two branches of the ruling military junta, which have entered into a clinch due to the impossibility of redistributing power, which stems from the ambitions of individual generals. Everything that is happening is a direct consequence of the overthrow of Al-Bashir, which plunged Sudan into a period of instability and a series of successful or unsuccessful coups. This is already the 4th or 5th after the overthrow of Al-Bashir.
Since Sudan is an important part of Russia's strategy to expand its influence in Africa, it is beneficial for Russia to stabilize Sudan and keep the military in power, which guaranteed the construction of a naval base in Port Sudan and the logistics base of PMC Wagner. In principle, Russia can work there with both sides, no matter which of them wins there, especially since they had contacts with both before. The Kremlin expressed concern about the events taking place in Sudan.
Sudan will continue to enjoy the fruits of democratic change after al-Bashir's ouster.
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From regnum.ru
Media: Sudanese army took control of all RRF headquarters in Omdurman
Al-Jazeera: Sudanese military took control of all the equipment and headquarters of the RRF in Omdurman
The Sudanese Armed Forces took control of all the headquarters of the Rapid Reaction Force (RRF)
| ...previously identified in the Rantburg archives as Rapid Support Forces (RSF). As Helmuth, Speaking for Sholugum4538 explained yesterday, they are “the old genocidal Janjaweed militia and war criminal ex-Pres Omar al-Bashir. They have partnered with Wagner PMC to extract/smuggle gold. attempting counter coup to overthrow the 2019 counter coup which overthrew the 1989 coup, ad infinitum.” |
The Sudanese military assured reporters that the SBR forces left their positions in Omdurman without taking any equipment or weapons with them.
As REGNUM reported , as a result of clashes in Sudan on April 15, at least 25 people were killed and 183 were injured .
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Abdel Fattah Burhan issued a decree disbanding the Rapid Reaction Forces.
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Egyptian military battalion surrenders to Sudanese Rapid Reaction Force
The battalion of the Egyptian Armed Forces at the Sudanese military air base Meroe surrendered to the Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) of Sudan.
"A battalion of the Egyptian army surrendered to the rapid reaction forces in Meroe," the RRF said on a social network.
The text is accompanied by a video in which dozens of men in the military uniform of the Egyptian Armed Forces are sitting on the pavement, surrounded by fighters of the Rapid Reaction Force standing above them.
According to RIA Novosti, the Egyptians are at a military air base in Sudan on the basis of agreements between the military of the two countries on joint training and exercises.
As REGNUM reported , on April 15, the Sudanese army and special forces accused each other of attacking their headquarters, clashes took place. Later, there were reports of army airstrikes on the headquarters of the special forces and the encirclement of the presidential palace with army armored vehicles.
The special forces announced that they had taken control of the airports in Khartoum and Merov and inflicted "great losses" on the military . The command of the special forces called on the people to "unite at this critical moment in history" and condemn the actions of the army.
From RIA Novosti
Media: Sudanese army took control of all RRF headquarters in Omdurman
The Sudanese Armed Forces took control of all the headquarters of the Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) in the city of Omdurman near the capital of the country, Khartoum, after shelling the RRF camp located there, Al-Jazeera TV channel reported , citing a representative of the Sudanese army.
"We took control of all the headquarters of the RRF in Omdurman with all their equipment," the source said.
The RRF forces, he said, left their positions in Omdurman, abandoning their equipment and weapons.
Earlier, Al-Jazeera, citing the military, reported that the Sudanese army launched air and artillery strikes on the RRF camp in this satellite city of Khartoum.
On Saturday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported the start of clashes between the RRF and the regular army in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. The rapid reaction forces announced that they had taken control of the Palace of the Republic (presidential palace), the international airport, and the air base in Merov. At the same time, representatives of the RRF accused the country's regular army of attacking its base near Khartoum with "the use of all types of weapons."
In turn, the army and the Sudanese General Security Service called the RRF rebels. They were also accused of attacking government and strategic facilities.
The Al-Arabiya TV channel also previously reported, citing sources, that the Sudanese army is also deploying units in Merow "in case of lack of security." According to his sources, the Sudanese Armed Forces gave the RRF a certain amount of time to leave the city. In turn, the rapid reaction forces themselves stated that their presence in Merov was part of the fulfillment of their tasks and duties.
Forces for Freedom and Change, Sudan's leading opposition movement, last week announced a new postponement of the signing of the final political agreement providing for the establishment of a transitional civilian authority in the country, due to a lack of consensus between the military parties.
According to the Sudanese media, the reason for the postponement of the signing of the political agreement was the contradictions between the Sudanese army, led by the head of the Sovereign Council of the country, Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary units of the RRF, headed by Burhan's deputy on the Sovereign Council, Mohammed Daglo.
There are disagreements between the commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the head of the RRF, who, before the removal of the country's ex-president Omar al-Bashir , were personally subordinate to the head of state, there are disagreements on the issue of integrating forces into the ranks of the army. This clause is one of the most controversial in the agreement discussed by the parties.
In December 2022, the Sudanese military and opposition movements signed a framework political agreement providing for the establishment of a transitional civilian authority in the country. The signed document provides for the appointment of a prime minister, the adoption of an interim constitution and the subsequent two-year transitional period, after which general elections will be held. The head of the Sovereign Council of Sudan, Abdel Fattah Burhan, following the signing of an agreement with the opposition, said that the military would not participate in the political life of the country.
| Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail: Chaos in Sudan amid an attempted coup as government fighter jets fire missiles over capital as fears mount of a wider conflict |
Sudanese paramilitary force says it has control of Khartoum airport https://t.co/028JvOAdhZ
— Goobjoog News (@GoobjoogNews) April 15, 2023
Several aircraft damaged including a #Saudia A330 at Khartoum Airport as Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces takes control of the airport after days of tension in the country.
— The Daily Somalia (@TheDailySomalia) April 15, 2023
| Tolo News has Reuter’s report on the story: |
The Sudanese Doctors' Union reported at least 56 civilians had been killed and 595 people, including combatants, had been wounded since the fighting erupted on Saturday.
Scores of military personnel were also killed, it said without giving a specific number due to a lack of first hand information from many of the hospitals where those casualties were taken.
The group earlier said it recorded deaths at Khartoum's airport and Omdurman, as well as west of Khartoum in the cities of Nyala, El Obeid and El Fasher.
| The two leaders are Army chief General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and RSF leader, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti. |
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