The paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR) has affirmed this Saturday that they control the Presidential Palace where the president of the Sovereign Council and military leader, Abdelfatah al Burhan, resides, although his fate is unknown.
The units, led by the vice president of the Sovereign Council and number two in the Army, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias 'Hemedti', have indicated that this occurs in response to the "attack launched this morning by the Armed Forces" in the Soba camps, in the south of Khartoum.
According to the FAR note, they have controlled the Presidential Palace and guest house, as well as the Khartoum international airport, the largest in the country; that of Marawi, in northern Sudan and bordering Egypt, and that of Al Obeid, in southern Sudan.
"What the Armed Forces Command and several officers did represents a clear violation against our forces, which were committed to peace and exercised restraint," the FAR said, wanting to calm the citizens of Sudan by saying that "they are safe and that the situation is under control.
For its part, the Armed Forces have indicated in a statement that they are facing "the brutal aggression" of the FAR and that they will protect the country from "their betrayal."
The Army has said that the action they carried out this morning occurred in response to an attack that the FAR had previously committed in Khartoum against their units.
Two days ago, the Sudanese Army warned that the country was going through a "dangerous juncture" that could lead to armed conflict after units of the FAR, Sudan's most powerful paramilitary group, "mobilized" in the capital Khartoum and other cities.
'Hemedti' showed yesterday his willingness to seek a solution to the tension generated without there being "bloodshed, according to Sudanese officials who act as mediators between the military.
This mobilization has taken place in the midst of negotiations to reach a definitive political agreement that will put an end to the 2021 coup and lead Sudan to a democratic transition, a pact whose signing has been postponed twice this April precisely due to tensions between the Army and the FAR.
The FAR emerged from the Yanyawid militias, accused of committing crimes against humanity during the Darfur conflict (2003-2008).
