A joint operation led by the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) has successfully “crushed an entire mobile unit” of forces loyal to Malik Agar, the Deputy Head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, and forced them to retreat into South Sudan.
An RSF commander has called on the South Sudanese government to take responsibility for the fleeing Agar forces, disarm them, and prevent any further conflict. He stated, “We are at the last stronghold of Malik Agar’s militia, and out of respect for the sovereignty of South Sudan, we ask that you disarm them. We will not cross the border in respect for your state.”
Malik Agar leads a faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), which has been fighting alongside General al-Burhan’s army (SAF) since a split within the movement created two rival factions.
One faction is led by Agar, and the other by Abdel Aziz Adam Al-Hilu, whose forces recently signed a political and military agreement with the RSF in Nairobi last month.
The agreement, dubbed the “Founding Alliance,” was signed by Abdel Aziz Al-Hilu’s faction of the SPLM-North, along with the RSF and other political forces and armed movements.
