The paramilitaries reiterate their “unwavering commitment to the security of all diplomatic missions”
May 17. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have rejected on Tuesday the accusations of the Sudanese Army about their alleged responsibility in attacks on diplomatic buildings in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
“The RSF refutes the false claims by the Sudanese Armed Forces that our forces attacked a diplomatic mission and residence in Khartoum. These claims are nothing more than an act of disinformation aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the RSF,” reads a statement.
According to the letter, “there were no such incidents or attacks against diplomatic missions or their personnel today by any party to the current war.”
The RSF has indicated that the Army “and its extremist supporters linked to the former regime of military dictator Omar al Bashir spread false news, claiming that the RSF had attacked the Jordanian Embassy and the residence of the Saudi ambassador in the capital.”
In this sense, the paramilitaries have “reiterated their unwavering commitment to the protection and security of all diplomatic missions, residences and workers, as well as to assist in the safe evacuation of foreign citizens.”
The Government of Jordan denounced on Monday an assault against its Embassy in Khartoum, in which unidentified persons “forcibly broke into” the building and committed “acts of vandalism” inside, in the midst of fighting between the Army and the RSFs.
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).
