The head of the Army predicts the paramilitary defeat without ruling out negotiations

17 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The head of the Sudanese Army, Abdelfatá al Burhan, has stressed that “without a doubt” he will defeat the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), although he has not ruled out that sooner or later the two parties may sit down to talk: “All war ends at the negotiating table, even if the opponent is defeated”.

“Even if there is a surrender, there may still be a negotiation,” said Al Burhan, in an interview with the British channel Sky News that comes shortly after the military leader declared the RSF a “rebel group” and ordered its dissolution. group, on the third day of fighting between both sides.

Al Burhan, who remains in the presidential complex in Khartoum – a “completely safe” area in his opinion – has denounced that it is the RSF who are increasing the fighting in commercial and residential areas of the capital, Khartoum, which remains practically blocked.

The Army, he added, is “holding back.” “We do not want many civilian victims in residential areas,” the military leader argued, after almost a hundred casualties among the population have been confirmed, to which must be added those killed by each of the belligerent parties.

Hours earlier, the leader of the RSF, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias ‘Hemedti’, had called for an “intervention” by the international community against the “crimes” of the head of the Sudanese Army, whom he has described as “a radical Islamist” responsible of “a brutal campaign” against “innocents”.

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the African Union and the United Nations have issued a joint statement on Monday in which they have urged the parties to a “humanitarian pause”, after the truce announced on Sunday was not fulfilled ” In its whole”.