Sudanese army announces “decisive defeat” of RSF in El Fasher

September 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Sudanese army announced on Thursday evening a “decisive defeat” of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in the city of El Fasher, capital of the North Darfur region, and said that its fighters had withdrawn after suffering “heavy casualties”, although the militia has not yet commented on the matter.

“The Sudanese Armed Forces, together with allied forces and mobilized volunteers, have decisively defeated the RSF terrorist militia, inflicting heavy casualties on its fighters and causing substantial damage to its equipment. The surviving militants have been forced to flee, abandoning dozens of vehicles and leaving behind hundreds of dead,” the army posted on its Facebook account.

He also said that this was a “significant victory” for the Sudanese people over the RSF and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a country he accuses of supporting the paramilitaries.

He then posted a video of local people holding “spontaneous celebrations” after the military managed to repel a “desperate assault” by the RSF. It should be noted that the city is one of the main hotbeds of fighting in the war between the two sides.

The RSF, for its part, has claimed the death of a hundred members of the Army during an attack against a convoy of 60 vehicles that was “crushed” in the town of Al Faw (east) in what it has considered a “severe defeat” of the Armed Forces, according to a statement published on its account on the social network X.

Sudan is in the throes of a civil war following hostilities that broke out in April 2023 amid heightened tensions over the integration of the RSF paramilitaries into the armed forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December to form a new civilian government and revive the open transition following the 2019 overthrow of Omar Hassan al-Bashir, damaged by the coup d’état of October 2021, in which Prime Minister of Unity Abdallah Hamdok was overthrown.