Both have also traded blame and exchanged heated accusations of human rights abuses. The two sides agreed to several short cease-fires since the fighting started, but all were violated.
Human rights organizations have accused the RSF of looting and attacking civilians, and the military of indiscriminately bombing residential areas. Meanwhile, explosions resounded in a southern neighborhood of Khartoum on Monday while videos posted online show a hospital in the East Nile area, a neighborhood just east of Khartoum, being bombed. It said the fighting began when RSF fighters and militiamen entered the city on Friday and clashed with other armed groups and residents. The violence has also killed over 600 people, including many civilians, according to the World Health Organization.Ī two-day outbreak of fighting in Geneina, the capital of West Darfur province, killed scores of people last week, said the Sudan Doctors' Syndicate, a group that tracks civilian casualties. The capital, Khartoum, has been reduced to an urban battlefield and the western Darfur region is rocked by deadly tribal clashes. Since mid-April, the Sudanese army, led by Burhan, and the RSF, commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, have been locked in a power struggle that has forced tens of thousands to flee to neighboring countries.Ĭhaos has taken over much of the country since the conflict broke out. On Monday, he removed the country's police chief and sacked two ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry.
Over the past decade, the paramilitary force has amassed great wealth through the gradual acquisition of Sudanese financial institutions and gold reserves.īurhan on Sunday replaced Sudan’s Central Bank governor. It remains unclear what immediate effect the freezing would have on the RSF and how Burhan’s orders are to be enforced.
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