Fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces continues into its third week as plumes of smoke rise from the center of Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Sunday morning and photos of the fire at Sudan’s Central Bank circulate. shared photos of what they said was a fire at the Central Bank of Sudan. The headquarters of the Central Bank of Sudan is located in the capital city of Khartoum.
Thousands of foreigners are being evacuated from Sudan. Khartoum has seen air strikes and sporadic shelling despite a truce and international efforts to end hostilities, amid warnings that the fighting will escalate into civil war.
Today, Sunday, Al-Arabiya Channel reported that explosions and firefights were heard in the area of the General Command of the Ground Forces, and army units carried out sweeping operations in the Halfaya area in northern Khartoum.
Fighting, in its third week since April 15, flared up between army forces led by Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Lieutenant General Muhammad Hamdan Daghalo, known as “Hamidti”, after weeks of tension and disagreement regarding the mechanism for integrating “operational support” into the armed forces.
