The RSF claim to have shot down a military plane and denounce bombing in the capital of Sudan

May 2. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have assured this Tuesday that they have shot down a Sudanese military plane during a series of bombardments in the capital, Khartoum, despite the ceasefire agreement in force after the fighting that broke out on April 15 between the paramilitaries and the Sudanese Army.

The RSF has indicated that the downed plane is a MiG that “belongs to the coup forces and the extremist remnants of the late regime”, referring to the government of former President Omar Hasan al Bashir, who led the country between 1989 and 2019.

Thus, it has accused the Armed Forces of carrying out bombardments against “several residential areas” in Khartoum and has stressed that “they will continue to work decisively in the face of any entrenchment by the coup plotters”, without the Army having ruled on the matter.

The statement, published by the RSF through its account on the social network Twitter, comes a day after the Army stated that it has “reduced” by about half “the combat capabilities” of the paramilitary forces since the beginning. of the fighting, on April 15, hostilities that have resulted in hundreds of deaths.

The hostilities broke out on April 15 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– in the within the 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 Al Bashir’s regime.