7/13/2025–|Last update: 05:12 (Mecca time)
A military source said that the Sudanese army managed on Saturday to repel an attack by the Rapid Support Forces on Al -Fasher, after the latter announced its control of several major areas in the city in western Sudan.
Al -Fasher is the only main city that is not controlled by the Rapid Support Forces in the Darfur region, and has been imposed on it for more than a year in the midst of its war with the army since April 2023.
The military source said that the army, supported by armed factions allied with it, regained the Shala prison and the central reserve police headquarters in the southwest of the city, “rapid support is rapid losses.”
On the other hand, a source in the Rapid Support Forces said that it has fully controlled these same sites since Friday, in addition to the livestock market in South El Fasher.
Salah Issa, a resident of the Awlad Al -Reef neighborhood in the center of Al -Fasher, said that the rapid support forces began an attack on Friday from the southwest of the city, heading towards the airport.
Another witness, Mohieldin Abdel Rahman, said that the rapid support elements launched a machine gun attack, while they were usually using heavy artillery shelling to target sites in the city.
On Friday evening, the Rapid Support Forces released videos showing some of their elements declaring their control over several locations in the southwest of the city.
Since last Tuesday evening, the Rapid Support Forces intensified their attack on El Fasher.
According to local activists, the city was subjected to artillery shelling during last Wednesday, and at least 8 people were killed in a rapid support raid targeting a refuge for civilians, according to a medical source.
Al -Fasher residents suffer from a severe lack of food, water and health care.
Since losing the capital, Khartoum, which was controlled by the army last March, and in an attempt to extend its control over the entire Darfur region, the Rapid Support Forces intensified their attacks on El -Fasher and the displaced camps surrounding it.
It is noteworthy that the war that erupted in Sudan between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023 has killed tens of thousands and displaced 13 million people and caused famine in several regions of the country, according to international and international reports.