Clashes between the Sudanese Army and the powerful Rapid Support Forces (FAR) paramilitary group continued this Sunday morning in the vicinity of the Armed Forces headquarters, in downtown Khartoum, and other locations in Sudan.
Clashes continue for the second day in the capital, after breaking out on Saturday morning after the FAR accused the Army of attacking their positions, an action that the Armed Forces indicated was in response to an attack.
The Armed Forces said in a statement that one of the towers of its headquarters in Khartoum was set on fire as a result of the fighting, in an action that left no casualties, and they deny the FAR's claims that they had seized the facility.
The African country, on the verge of the conflict turning into a war, woke up to military planes flying over central Khartoum and other points east and south of the capital, while fighting continued in other towns in the country.
Army spokesman Nabil Abdullah said in a statement that the army has seized control of the Rapid Support Forces' largest base in the Karari area, north of the town of Omdurman, and requisitioned the entire equipment belonging to the paramilitaries.
Likewise, the military has also taken control of up to 35 FAR armored vehicles in the city of Damazin, in southeastern Sudan.
In two days of fighting, at least 56 civilians have lost their lives and almost 600 - also among the ranks of the warring parties - have been injured, reports the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors.
These figures, however, do not include casualties in the troubled western region of Darfur, where there is heavy fighting in Al Fasher and Nyala, as well as in Al Obeid, in North Kordofan state, due to difficulties of movement in those zones.
These clashes occurred after the Army warned on Thursday that the country is going through a "dangerous situation" that could lead to armed conflict, after FAR units "mobilized" in the Sudanese capital and other cities without the consent or coordination of the Armed Forces.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
