Sudan’s prime navy officer visited Egypt on Tuesday and held talks with its chief, authorities stated, in his first journey overseas because the nation plunged right into a bitter battle this yr.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, chairman of the ruling Sovereign Council, arrived within the Mediterranean metropolis of el-Alamein and was obtained on the airport by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, the council stated.
The 2 leaders mentioned efforts to finish the battle in Sudan in a approach that preserves “the sovereignty, integrity of Sudanese State,” an Egyptian assertion stated. The assertion provided solely generalities concerning the struggle.
Sudan plunged into chaos in mid-April when simmering tensions between the navy, led by Burhan, and the highly effective paramilitary Speedy Help Forces, commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, exploded into open combating within the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere.
The battle has turned the capital into an city battlefield, with the RSF controling huge swaths of town. The navy command, the place Burhan has purportedly been stationed since April, has been one of many epicenters of the battle.
In televised feedback to Egyptian media, Burhan accused the RSF of initiating the struggle to grab energy within the nation.
“We’re dealing with a harmful struggle initiated by insurgent teams … that dedicated heinous crimes that quantity to struggle crimes,” he stated.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, proper, greets Sudanese Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in el-Alamein, Egypt, on Aug. 29, 2023. (Egyptian Presidency Media Workplace through AP)
The navy has sought to finish the battle and set up a transitional interval till “truthful and free elections,” he stated.
Burhan was accompanied to Egypt by Performing International Minister Ali al-Sadiq and Gen. Ahmed Ibrahim Mufadel, head of the Normal Intelligence Authority, and different navy officers.
There was no fast remark from the RSF both on Burhan’s journey or on his feedback.
Burhan managed final week to depart the navy headquarters. He visited navy amenities in Khartoum’s sister metropolis of Omdurman and elsewhere within the nation. Burhan traveled to Egypt from the coastal metropolis of Port Sudan on the Crimson Sea.
Regardless of months of combating, neither facet has managed to achieve management of Khartoum or different key areas within the nation. Final week, giant explosions and plumes of black smoke might be seen above key areas of the capital, together with close to its airport.
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Egypt has longstanding ties with the Sudanese military and its prime generals. In July, el-Sissi hosted a gathering of Sudan’s neighbors and introduced a plan for a cease-fire. A collection of fragile truces, brokered by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, have failed to carry.
Many residents of Khartoum reside with out water and electrical energy, and the nation’s well being care system has almost collapsed.
The sprawling area of Darfur noticed among the worst violence within the battle, and the combating there has morphed into ethnic clashes, with RSF and allied Arab militia concentrating on ethnic African communities.
Clashes intensified earlier this month in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, with either side utilizing heavy weapons in densely populated areas, in response to activists and native media.
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Shelling hit in Nyala’s al-Sekka al-Hadeid neighborhood on Aug. 22, killing not less than 39 civilians together with girls and youngsters, activist Adam Mousa stated.
Mousa, who’s a media officer with the Darfur Bar Affiliation, referred to as for the Worldwide Felony Courtroom to analyze the assault and maintain the perpetrators accountable.
Clashes had been additionally reported within the provinces of South Kordofan and West Kordofan, in response to the United Nations.
The combating is estimated to have killed not less than 4,000 individuals, in response to the U.N. human rights workplace, although activists and docs on the bottom say the toll is probably going far larger.
Greater than 4.6 million individuals have been displaced, in response to the U.N. migration company. These embody over 3.6 million who fled to safer areas inside Sudan and greater than 1 million others who crossed into neighboring international locations.
