Renewed clashes in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Monday, between the army and the Rapid Support Forces as confrontations between the two sides entered their second month, while the city of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state, witnessed clashes between the Rapid Support and gunmen, resulting in about 200 deaths in two days.

This comes at a time when Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sovereignty Council and army commander, continued to dismiss many officials, while the commander of the Rapid Support Mohamed Hamdan Daglo "Hemedti" accused him of destroying Sudan, calling on his forces to cohesion.

Renewed clashes took place in areas south of Khartoum and in Omdurman, using heavy weapons and shelling by warplanes. The RSF's anti-aircraft responded to the attacks, and both sides accused each other of violating the Jeddah Agreement aimed at protecting civilians.

Sudan's military said it had dealt with a large logistical supply of weapons and ammunition to the RSF, in an operation that targeted some areas in East Nile locality and anchored around East Nile Hospital.

The army said there were no civilian casualties who had moved away from the hospital area following RSF abuses.

The RSF has said Sudanese army fighter jets shelled populated areas of Khartoum.

In a statement, these forces confirmed that one of the raids targeted East Nile Hospital, killing and wounding dozens of civilians and destroying a large part of the hospital.

Battles of El Geneina

In West Darfur state, the Sudan Medical Association said about 200 people were killed and 160 wounded in clashes in El Geneina on Friday and Saturday following an attack by an armed militia dressed in RSF uniforms.

The medical syndicate said in a statement that El Geneina is going through the worst and most violent events since the beginning of the clashes in the city on April 23.

Eyewitnesses told Al Jazeera that fierce battles took place in El Geneina between the Rapid Support Forces and armed groups of the city's citizens, leading to hundreds of casualties among civilians and on both sides.

In North Kordofan state, local sources told Al Jazeera that a force from the Rapid Support Forces stormed the city of al-Rahad on Monday, captured two police forces and burned a number of government buildings, including an intelligence service building and another for the police, next to the city's local government presidency building.

The sources added that the city's market witnessed sporadic looting during the clashes, stressing that the Rapid Support Forces withdrew out of the city on Monday evening.

Hemedti Registration

Meanwhile, Hemedti accused what he called remnants of the former regime of spreading the rumor of his death, calling on his forces to hold together.

Hemedti explained, in an audio recording, that he is among his soldiers in the areas of Bahri, Omdurman, Khartoum and East Nile, and vowed to bring army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to a speedy trial, accusing him of destroying Sudan.

Earlier on Sunday, Sudanese activists circulated on social media that Hemedti had been killed by wounds sustained in clashes with the army.

Proof Decisions

Politically, Burhan issued a decision to relieve Lieutenant General Anan Hamed Mohamed Omar from his position as director general of the police forces and acting interior minister, and assigned Lieutenant General Khaled Hassan Mohieddin to the duties of director general of the police forces.

Since the outbreak of clashes between the army and the Rapid Support in mid-April, citizens of the capital, Khartoum, have complained about the "remarkable absence" of the police and their failure to intervene to resolve lawlessness and criminal activity and protect civilians in markets and residential neighborhoods.

Al-Burhan's decisions included the referral of 4 army officers with the ranks of major general and brigadier general who were previously seconded to work in the Rapid Support Forces, most notably the commander of operations in the Rapid Support Forces, Major General Othman Hamed, the head of the support delegation for negotiations in Jeddah, Omar Hamdan, and the director of the Hemedti office, Major General Hassan Mahjoub, for not responding to the army commander's decision, which was issued earlier to end all mandates of the regular forces in rapid support.

Al-Burhan also issued a decision to terminate the service of Sudan's former ambassador to Berlin, Abdel Moneim Al-Bayti, and former Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ambassador Haider Badawi.

Al-Burhan had issued a decision to dismiss the governor of the Central Bank of Sudan, Hussein Yahya Janqul, from his post, and to appoint Burai Siddiq Ali Ahmed in his place.

Al-Burhan also issued a decision to freeze the accounts of the Rapid Support Forces and their companies in all banks in Sudan and their branches abroad. The resolution stipulates that the disbursement of any benefits or budgets allocated to them shall be prohibited.

Pro-military demonstrations

In a related context, mass demonstrations in support of the Sudanese army took place in a number of Sudanese cities on Monday, where mass numbers came out in the city of (Qandtu) in northern Sudan, raising slogans in support of the army and supporting it in the ongoing war with the Rapid Support Forces.

In the state of Gedarif, large crowds came out of the area (Abayw) and headed towards the command of the Second Infantry Division in the city of Gedaref to provide food to the army forces.

A group from the social Hausa component in Kassala state in eastern Sudan also marched in support of the army.

Meanwhile, demonstrations in support of the army took place in the city of Al-Duwaim led by members of the National Administration from the tribal component (Duwaih), carrying with them food supplies to support the army.

The demonstrators roamed around the city of Duwaim chanting slogans "One Army, One People" and then went to lead the military division in Duwim.

Jordanian Embassy?

In this context, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry denounced what it described as the storming and sabotage of the Jordanian embassy building in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, without specifying who stormed the embassy.

The Ministry expressed its condemnation and denunciation of this attack and all forms of violence and vandalism targeting diplomatic facilities and violating their sanctity.

#وزارة_الخارجية_وشؤون_المغتربين announced that the Jordanian embassy building in #الخرطوم was stormed and vandalized. The Ministry expressed its condemnation and denunciation of the attack on the Jordanian embassy building in Khartoum, and all forms of violence and vandalism, especially those targeting diplomatic buildings and violating... pic.twitter.com/syWCRRAYtG

— Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (@ForeignMinistry) May 15, 2023

The fighting has left more than 750 people dead and thousands injured, in addition to nearly a million displaced people and refugees from across Sudan.

Before the war, a third of the country's population depended on international food assistance, and today they are deprived of it, as humanitarian stores were looted and many of these organizations suspended their work after 18 of their staff were killed.

Prices rose sharply up to 4 times for foodstuffs and 20-fold for fuel. Liquidity has become scarce due to the closure of banks, some of which have been looted, since April 15, while 5 million Khartoum residents live hiding in their homes waiting for a ceasefire that has not yet been achieved.

In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the two sides are in talks on a "humanitarian" ceasefire to allow civilians out and allow aid to enter, but so far they have agreed only on humanitarian rules on evacuating civilians from combat zones and providing safe corridors for the transport of aid.