Tensions Rise Between Sudanese Army and RSF Militia Radiodabanga: Sudan
"Preserving and maintaining the security and safety of the country is the constitutional and legal responsibility of the army, with the assistance of the various state institutions," the spokesperson for the SAF General Command said in a statement issued at dawn today.
The army command reacted to the deployment in the past few days of a large number of RSF paramilitaries,"without SAF approval" inside the country's capital and the town of Merowe in Northern State, about 200 kilometres north of Khartoum. The army surrounded the RSF troops and requested them to withdraw, however, the paramilitary force refused.
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