Shelling rocked greater Khartoum on Friday as fighting between Sudan's warring generals intensified, despite US sanctions imposed after
Smoke billows behind buildings in Khartoum on June 2, 2023, as fighting between Sudan’s warring generals intensified. – For nearly seven weeks, deadly fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has gripped Khartoum and the western region of Darfur despite repeated efforts to broker a humanitarian ceasefire.
The army announced it had brought in reinforcements from other parts of Sudan to participate in “operations in the Khartoum area”. It also placed sanctions on gold mining firm Al Junaid Multi Activities Co and arms trader Tradive General Trading, two companies controlled by RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and his family.
So far neither side has gained a decisive advantage. The regular army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has air power and heavy weaponry, but analysts say the paramilitaries are more mobile and better suited to urban warfare. On Friday, the army said it was “surprised” by the US and Saudi decision to “suspend the talks” without responding to an army proposal.
Conditions are especially dire in Darfur, where those fleeing the violence told Doctors Without Borders of “armed men shooting at people trying to flee, villages being looted and the wounded dying” without access to medical care, the aid group said Friday.Later Friday, the UN Security Council extended for just six months the global body’s political mission in Sudan, after Burhan accused its envoy, Volker Perthes, of stoking conflict.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres repeated his “full confidence” in Perthes. Several other Council members also voiced support for the envoy.
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