Witnesses reported that the Sudanese army launched a fierce attack on supply routes used by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) today, Sunday, while army chief Abdel Fattah Burhan apparently rejected the possibility of a negotiated solution. The army carried out several airstrikes in the city of Omdurman today, following the announcement from military sources about the deployment of a large number of ground troops and heavy weapons in an effort to strengthen control over the city.
These attacks could cut a major supply route for the RSF, which sends supplies from the Darfur region to Omdurman and then to Bahri and the capital Khartoum via the Nile River. Airstrikes continued in southern Khartoum after a local volunteer group reported that 20 people were killed last night in an air raid.
Multiple international initiatives to halt the fighting and negotiate a solution to the conflict, which erupted over plans to integrate the RSF into the army, have failed. General Burhan, who has led the Transitional Sovereignty Council since 2019, vowed to defeat the RSF. He stated in remarks from the city of Kassala, "The war ends only with the end of the rebellion." Burhan emerged from the army command headquarters for the first time since the war began in late last month after fierce battles targeted the Armored Corps base, which is the army's last stronghold in the capital. Today, the RSF announced its control over part of this base in southern Khartoum.
