As the clashes in Sudan enter their eighth week, the state of chaos is still the prevailing feature in Sudan, where the fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces has led to civilians being caught in the crossfire and prevented them from accessing basic services.

Edited by| Hugh Gey

Politic section -  CJ journalist

Sudan conflict news section  

Jeddah – June,7,2023

The two sides in the war in Sudan have resumed ceasefire talks sponsored by Saudi Arabia and the United States amid air and ground clashes in the capital Khartoum.

A Saudi - American statement on Tuesday confirmed that the delegations of the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support forces are continuing indirect talks while they are in Jeddah on ways to facilitate humanitarian assistance and reach an agreement on short-term steps that the parties should take before officially resuming the Jeddah talks.

Army chief Lieutenant General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan spoke earlier on Tuesday with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, according to a statement issued by the sovereign Council, which he heads.

According to the statement, Al-Burhan stressed the need for the Rapid Support forces to exit "from hospitals, service centers and citizens' homes and open humanitarian aid delivery routes so that the Jeddah platform achieves its success".

The commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Lieutenant General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, said last Sunday that he had spoken with Prince Faisal bin Farhan and expressed his support for the Jeddah talks. Neither of the leaders of the parties to the conflict mentioned the resumption of talks.

The two sides clashed last night on the streets of the city of Omdurman around the main Army Corps of Engineers base. The army, which appears to prefer air strikes to fighting on the ground, managed to maintain its positions around the base but was unable to defeat the Rapid Support Forces, which control most of the city.

The "Resistance Committees" in the neighborhoods say that the thieves, some of whom are residents of Khartoum, belong to the Rapid Support forces. They are looting Khartoum neighborhoods, stealing cars, breaking safes and occupying houses.

Aid groups are struggling to provide extensive assistance to Khartoum residents facing power and water outages as well as dwindling supplies in shops and pharmacies.

The "Resistance Committees" in the neighborhoods organize such assistance, but they suffer as the fighting intensifies.

The rights group "Emergency lawyers" reported that the Rapid Support forces had surrounded the island of Toti, which is located just north of major battlefields such as the presidential palace.

It added in a statement that the Rapid Support forces closed the island for the eighth day in a row, cut off food supplies and prevented the provision of health care, "and tightened its siege by shooting at everyone approaching the banks of the Nile in an attempt to get out of the island," resulting in the death of a man.

The fighting has spread beyond Khartoum to the Darfur region in the west of the country, where the Rapid Support forces (RSF) were established and still maintain their base of influence there. The fighting also hit the city of El Obeid, a key route between Khartoum and Darfur.

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