Al Burhan reappears in public to affirm that the Army controls “all areas” in the country
May 30. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The head of the Army and president of the Sudanese Sovereign Transition Council, Abdelfatá al Burhan, has threatened on Tuesday the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with using “lethal force” just one day after the parties have agreed to an extension five days of the ceasefire.
“We have not yet used lethal or excessive force, but if the RSF insists, we will have to use it,” he declared in front of more than a dozen Sudanese soldiers in what is his second public appearance since the conflict broke out.
Al Burhan, who has inspected the forces stationed in some places in the capital, Khartoum, has also stressed that the Sudanese Army controls “all areas of the country” and has stressed that “the Armed Forces are waging this battle on behalf of their people “, has picked up the chain Al Hadath.
Likewise, the also president of the Sudanese Sovereign Transition Council has assured that the extension of the truce has been approved to facilitate the flow of services to citizens, since the RSF have looted their properties “without scruples or conscience.”
On May 17, the Sudanese Army published several videos showing Al Burhan at a Khartoum headquarters, carrying out another inspection, although it is not common for him to appear in public in the capital.
The hostilities broke out 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 Al Bashir, damaged by the coup in October 2021, in which the prime minister of unity, Abdalá Hamdok, was overthrown.
However, the refusal of the RSF leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Dagalo, alias ‘Hemedti’, to the conditions of this reintegration led to tensions that caused postponements in the formation of the new transitional government and, finally, in some fighting which have left more than 700 dead, according to the official balance, although a union of Sudanese doctors has raised the number of deaths to more than 860.
