24 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have assured this Monday that they are making efforts to allow the “safe evacuation” of diplomats and foreign citizens, in the midst of a series of air operations to remove hundreds of people from Sudan due to the fighting. between this force and the Army.
The RSF have indicated in a statement that “the RSF, despite its concern when it comes to ending the coup forces and elements of the old regime (of former President Omar Hasan al Bashir, ousted in 2019), are working to provide the services necessary to the citizens.
“We are even working with public employees to allow them to carry out their work, in addition to guaranteeing security in the evacuations of diplomatic missions and citizens of foreign countries by facilitating the passage of citizens to safe areas,” they explained.
Likewise, they have pointed out that “during the last two days there have been widespread acts of vandalism and looting of civilian homes and the headquarters of companies and factories, behind which there is a plan of remnants of the late regime to try to accuse the RSF ” .
“Trying to recreate a beneficial scenario by cutting off the necessary services, including electricity and water, is a criminal act that the coup plotters and dark forces have been practicing for a long time to accuse others,” they stressed in their statement, published through from your account on the social network Twitter.
In recent days, the RSF have claimed to have collaborated and even participated in the evacuations, including that of US diplomatic personnel, something that was later denied by the US government.
“I want to emphasize that this operation was carried out by the Department of Defense, and the Department of Defense alone,” said US Deputy Secretary of State for Management John Bass, adding that the RSF “cooperated by not firing at agents during the operation.
In this context, two Air Force and Space planes took off late on Sunday from Khartoum with Spanish, European and Latin American citizens and diplomats, as confirmed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares.
The hostilities broke out in the context of an increase in tensions around the integration of the RSF –led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias ‘Hemedti’, who is also vice president of the Sovereign Transition Council– within the Forces Armed Forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December to form a new civilian government and reactivate the transition.
The talks process began with international mediation after the head of the Army and president of the Sovereign Transition Council, Abdelfatá al Burhan, led a coup in October 2021 that overthrew the then prime minister of unity, Abdalá Hamdok, appointed to the charge as a result of contacts between civilians and the military after the April 2019 riot, which ended 30 years of the regime of Omar Hasan al Bashir.
