Sudan: RSF commander defects with 300 soldiers
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Goobjoog
Lieutenant-Colonel Mohammed Azraq al-Fanjari, a former commander of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, has announced his defection with 300 officers and soldiers and 30 military vehicles. He called on RSF members to join the Sudanese army as the war continues, reports Goobjoog.
Lieutenant-Colonel Mohammed Azraq al-Fanjari, a commander in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), defected on Thursday 8 October in Sudan with 300 officers and soldiers and 30 combat vehicles, reports Goobjoog. He called on members of his former force to leave it and support the Sudanese army.
Al-Fanjari described the conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF, a paramilitary militia engaged in the fighting since 2023, as a “war without reason”. The defection comes as the two sides continue to clash across the country.
