Witnesses reported intense gunfire between Sudanese army and RSF in Khartoum, marking the eighth month of a brutal conflict plagued by widespread atrocities.
Artillery and rockets exchanged over the Nile River between the army in Omdurman and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum North, intensifying the conflict, witnesses revealed.
Local activists and residents confirmed that shelling targeting civilian homes has surged in recent weeks, resulting in dozens of casualties and adding to the humanitarian crisis.
Since April, Sudan has been embroiled in brutal urban warfare between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
Staggering Human Cost
The Armed Conflict and Event Data Project estimates over 10,000 deaths, while the United Nations reports 6.3 million people forcibly displaced, highlighting the staggering human cost of the conflict.
Efforts by the United States and Saudi Arabia to broker negotiations have failed, with both sides refusing to cede territory and intensifying their grip on key strategic locations.
The RSF launched strategic attacks on military bases, including the Wadi Seidna airbase, destroying a C130 military transport plane and an ammunition depot, according to an RSF spokesman.
Unfolding Events in West Kordofan
In West Kordofan, army troops withdrew from a base in Muglad after an RSF attack on the oil-rich area, while the army responded with fighter jets bombing RSF clusters in Babanusa.
Recent reports indicate the RSF gaining control in Darfur, with the group claiming the capital of East Darfur, leaving El Fasher in North Darfur as the last state capital under army control.
In the first few days of November, tribal conflicts and ethnically motivated attacks targeting Masalit people in, areas recently captured by the RSF, West Darfur killed an estimated 800 people, according to the UN, whose presence in the war-ravaged region is limited.
Local rights monitors have placed the number of those killed at well over 1,000.
Continuing intense clashes between the RSF and army have contributed to the no-mans-land reality of the region with the fact that both forces being busy fighting each other, creating a power vacuum in which ethnic and tribal rivalries have long reached past a boiling point.
With the pending closure of the UN mission in Sudan, replaced by a special envoy, concerns grow over reduced UN scrutiny. The international community is called upon to address the urgent need for protection in Darfur.
