Sudanese army strikes Rapid Support Forces in Kordofan
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Sudan Tribune and Al Jazeera
The Sudanese army and its allies carried out air and drone strikes on Sunday against Rapid Support Forces (RSF) positions in several localities in Western Kordofan, while continuing their advance towards En-Nahud, the state’s main city. According to Al Jazeera, the army took control of Al-Khuway, a strategic town in the region, on Friday.
The Dar Hamar emergency room said the bombardments had notably targeted En-Nahud, Donki al-Hur, Al-Odaya, Ghobeish, Moneim, Bayad and Wad al-Halio. Military sources say the army and its allies have taken several villages located between Al-Khuway and En-Nahud. Population displacements are increasing from En-Nahud, Abu Zabad and Wad Banda towards western Sudan, according to witnesses. These operations are part of an offensive launched at the end of June in Kordofan, which enabled the army to retake strategic sectors of North Kordofan, including supply routes used by the RSF. The army had already announced, on 13 November, the recapture of Al-Khuway in Western Kordofan, after that of Sarif Anqosh.
Government forces and their allies from Darfur have also broken the RSF siege of El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, and opened new routes towards the centre and south-west of the country. The RSF still hold En-Nahud, a gold-mining town, and part of South Kordofan, along with alleged allies of the SPLM-N of Abdelaziz al-Hilou.
According to Mohamed Ali, an independent Sudanese analyst, the loss of ground could force the RSF to withdraw from Kordofan to redeploy their forces in Darfur, which would make that region the new epicentre of the conflict earlier than expected. Mohiedeen Mohamed, a specialist in Sudanese military affairs, stresses that the movement relied heavily on the mobilisation of tribes, some of which have defected in recent weeks.
The war, which broke out in April 2023 after the rupture between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the army, and his former ally Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as ‘Hemedti’, has caused around 150,000 deaths and displaced more than 14 million people, in a population of 53 million.
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