Cities across Sudan are witnessing an escalation in fighting today, Monday, with no signs of an imminent ceasefire between the conflicting factions within the country.
In the latest developments, residents of El Fasher in North Darfur reported that the Sudanese Air Force conducted intense airstrikes on Rapid Support Forces (RSF) positions within the city early this Monday morning.
Residents informed the Arab World News Agency (AWP) about hearing loud explosions coinciding with the airstrikes, noting that forces responded with ground-to-air defenses and artillery shelling on army positions in El Fasher.
The Civil Democratic Forces Coordination (Taqadum) stated in a Monday release that the Air Force belonging to the armed forces bombed locations in North Darfur state, including the cities of El Fasher, Kabkabiya, and Kutum, causing a significant number of casualties and injuries among unarmed civilians; this was preceded by air raids on the Al Hadera area in South Kordofan, also resulting in civilian deaths and injuries.
Taqadum expressed “its vehement condemnation of the aerial bombardment targeting civilians continuously since the outbreak of the war” and called for an immediate halt to targeting civilians with airstrikes and artillery shelling, along with stopping the security targeting of civil democratic forces advocating for an end to the war in its various components.
Taqadum renewed its call for the warring parties to resort to reason and seek peaceful solutions “to spare our country the ravages of war that millions of our people pay for with their lives, displacement, migration, and loss of property, and to address the humanitarian suffering by opening corridors for delivering humanitarian aid to save millions of Sudanese from the specter of famine that violently knocks on our country’s doors, a situation that now necessitates an immediate and outright cessation of this senseless war.”
The Resistance Committees Coordination of El Fasher reported on Sunday that the city had been subjected to intense aerial bombing, resulting in 3 civilian deaths and 10 injuries.
Earlier on Monday, our correspondent reported that the Sudanese army intensified its artillery strikes on RSF assembly points on the outskirts north of Khartoum North in the morning.
Our correspondent observed artillery shells being fired by the army at the range of movement of the RSF forces, which had been besieged for weeks in the northern areas of Bahri city near the oil refinery in the Al Jili area.
Meanwhile, Khartoum and Omdurman have experienced relative calm in military operations in the past hours.
Citizens in the Al Dardar area of the White Nile state south of Khartoum reported the death of 6 locals by RSF gunfire after its entry.
As thousands of residents in the Gezira state adjacent to Khartoum suffer from the expansion of RSF forces in the state’s villages and the western areas of the neighboring Sennar state, forcing residents to flee their areas for fear of violations revealed by many village and area committees in Gezira state towards citizens by the RSF.
Fighting erupted suddenly in mid-April 2023 between the Sudanese army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo “Hemedti,” following weeks of tension between the two sides as military and civilian parties were finalizing an internationally supported political process.
