Fighting Erupts Between Sudan Military, Army Forces
POLITICS DIGEST – Heavy fighting has erupted in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum, with the Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces saying it has taken control of the presidential palace.
The RSF said it was responding to a surprise attack from the army on one of its bases.
Sudan’s Armed Forces Command accused the group of “traitorous plotting” and said it was fighting the RSF in Khartoum.
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Tensions between the two groups have been high for weeks over plans to merge the RSF and the army.
The military has been in charge of Sudan since a coup in 2021, which ended a power-sharing arrangement formed following the ousting of long-term former President Omar al-Bashir.
The confrontation between Sudan’s Armed Forces and paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces is one that military sources say they have been bracing for.
Sudan’s military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF Commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, until recently, were bedfellows.
They were bound together by a 2021 coup and the prior toppling of ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
