Fighting is still ongoing between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support forces in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and in the Darfur region in western Sudan, where the death toll of the fighting rose to about 574 dead with the disclosure of the death of 74 people in the city of El Geneina.

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 Edited by| Paul Mitchel

Africa section -  CJ journalist

Khartoum- April,29,2023

Sudan Conflict ( CJ special Newsroom)

 

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  This comes while the countries of the world continue to attempt to evacuate their nationals from Sudan, where Saudi Arabia announced that it has evacuated 4879 people from Sudan since the start of the evacuation operations (139 Saudi citizens, and about 4738 people belonging to 96 nationalities)," and the kingdom was keen to provide all the basic needs of foreign nationals in preparation for facilitating their departure to their countries".

Meanwhile, Britain announced that it is ending the evacuation of its nationals and their relatives trapped in the ongoing fighting in Sudan from Sudan by military aircraft.

More than 2,000 British citizens have informed the authorities that they want to be evacuated.

Within forty-eight hours, Chad also evacuated 351 of its citizens who were trapped in the ongoing fighting in Sudan, after a third plane arrived in N'djamena with 130 passengers on board from the city of Port Sudan.

"We are receiving 130 returnees, including 15 children and 34 elderly people," foreign ministry spokesman Ibrahim Adam Mohammed told AFP.

Two evacuation flights arrived in N'djamena on Thursday evening from Port Sudan with 221 Chadians on board.

The Rapid Support Forces announced that "army forces attacked this morning the positions of our troops and a number of residential neighborhoods in Khartoum".

The Sudanese army said it had foiled a "failed attempt by the rebels and their supporters to seize power".

"What was thwarted over the past two weeks was a failed attempt to seize power by the rebels with full political cover, and in fact, it was a project to hijack the Sudanese state with all its history in favor of a one-person autonomy project," he said in a statement.

"All attempts by the rebels (referring to the Rapid Support forces) and their collaborators from domestic and foreign agents (he did not name them) failed in marketing their project based on deceiving people, falsifying facts, and buying accounts," he added.

The statement pointed out that "satellite channels (without specifying) resulted in their real face hostile to the armed forces, and one of the advantages of the crisis is the differentiation of ranks".

"The army is working to create the appropriate conditions so that the police and other state agencies can resume their work and life can return to normal as soon as possible," he said.

 

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