Sudanese militants in the city of Gedaref express their support for the army (French)

The Rapid Support Forces launched an attack with heavy weapons on the Armored Corps camp of the Sudanese army, which responded by bombing support sites south of Khartoum, while the Abyei region witnessed the killing of more than 50 people in a tribal conflict.

Sudanese army sources said that the Rapid Support Forces used heavy weapons such as tanks and artillery in their attack on the armored camp, adding that the army was able to repel the attack, seized a tank and a dual cannon, and destroyed a combat vehicle.

Battles between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces have continued to take place from time to time over armored vehicles, since the outbreak of war between the two parties in mid-April.

On the other hand, local sources told Al Jazeera that the Sudanese army bombed with heavy artillery, on Monday, rapid support sites in a number of neighborhoods south of Khartoum and the eastern Nile region.

Since last April 15, the war has continued in various areas of Sudan between the army forces led by the President of the Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who was Vice-President of the Sovereignty Council before the conflict broke out between the two sides, which left thousands dead, as well as About millions of displaced and affected people.

Abyei attacks

On the other hand, news agencies reported from local sources that more than 50 people, including women and children, were killed and more than 60 others were injured in a series of attacks in the disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan.

The Minister of Information in the Abyei region, Paul Kok, said that armed youths from Warrap State in South Sudan carried out raids on the neighboring Abyei region on Saturday, noting that the local authorities had imposed a curfew against the backdrop of the deteriorating security situation.

In turn, the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) said yesterday, Sunday, that a Ghanaian soldier from the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in Abyei was killed when its base in the town of Agok was attacked


in light of the continuing violence, as hundreds of displaced civilians took refuge in the force’s base. Temporary security.

According to Reuters news agency, clashes have been repeated in Abyei between rival factions of the Dinka ethnic tribe regarding the location of the administrative borders, which are a major source of tax revenues.

Cook said that Dinka youth in Warrap and the forces of a rebel leader from the Nuer tribe carried out the attacks against the Dinka and Nuer in Abyei.

The civil war in South Sudan, which broke out largely along ethnic lines between Dinka and Nuer, previously caused hundreds of thousands of deaths between 2013 and 2018.

Both Sudan and South Sudan claim the Abyei region as their own, and since 2011 it has been administered by authorities made up of officials from both countries.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies