After announcing his willingness to engage in negotiations soon during a speech to his officers at a military base in the Red Sea, sources indicate an expected meeting between Sudanese army leader Abdel Fattah Burhan and Rapid Support Forces leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as "Hemetti," set to take place in a regional capital within the next few days. Reports have confirmed that the acting Foreign Minister Ali Al-Sadiq delivered a written message to the Prime Minister of Djibouti, the head of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), through the Djiboutian ambassador to Morocco during the Arab Forum held in Marrakech last week, stating that Burhan is ready to meet Hemetti with specific conditions.
This announcement follows Burhan's speech at a military base in the Red Sea state, where he expressed his agreement to negotiate with the Rapid Support Forces, emphasizing his rejection of any peace agreement that would humiliate the armed forces and the Sudanese people. He reaffirmed on Thursday that the armed forces would remain cohesive, strong, and a guarantor of Sudan's safety, pledging to hold accountable anyone negligent in the fall of the city of Wad Medani.
On the ground, clashes occurred on Saturday between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in the southern villages of the Al-Jazeera state, central Sudan, near the southeastern state of Sennar, where the army attempted to repel a Rapid Support Forces attack on Sennar, as residents continued to flee from Wad Medani to eastern states. Meanwhile, fighting erupted south of Al-Jazeera state in the villages of Haj Abdallah and Wad Al-Haddad, adjacent to Sennar, in an effort to halt the Rapid Support Forces' advance towards the state, according to the Arab World News Agency.
