May 16. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Government of Jordan has denounced an assault against its Embassy in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in the midst of fighting between the Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), without it being clear for the moment who has been responsible for the attack. stroke.
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry has indicated in a statement published on its account on the social network Twitter that unidentified people “forcibly broke” into the building and committed “acts of vandalism” inside, without further details in this regard.
Thus, he has condemned what happened and has shown Amman’s rejection of “all forms of violence and vandalism, especially those directed against diplomatic buildings”, while calling for “respect for the rules of International Law and compliance with agreements international conventions, especially the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations”.
The Army and the RSF signed a preliminary agreement late on Thursday during contacts in the Saudi city of Jeddah in which they promised to allow the passage of humanitarian aid, also to facilitate the movement of civilians fleeing the hot areas of confrontations towards safer places and to respect humanitarian truces.
The hostilities broke out on April 15 in the context of an increase in tensions around the integration of the RSF into the Armed Forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December to form a new civilian government and reactivate the transition open after the overthrow in 2019 of the then president, Omar Hasan al Bashir, damaged by the coup in October 2021, in which the prime minister of unity, Abdalá Hamdok, was overthrown.
The fighting has so far left more than 675 dead, more than 5,500 injured and almost a million internally displaced or refugees to other countries, according to an estimate presented on Sunday by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
