Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces on Sunday said after a string of battlefield defeats the Sudanese army and allied mercenary groups have shifted to a scorched-earth strategy, targeting crucial public infrastructure in the ongoing conflict.
RSF said SAF warplanes dropped barrel bombs on the Gaili Oil Refinery, north of Bahri in Khartoum State on Sunday, severely damaging crude oil transport lines and causing extensive destruction within the refinery.
“The systematic destruction and sabotage of vital public facilities and infrastructure by the SAF and its extremist patrons from the former regime reveal their extreme desperation and frustration in the face of numerous successive defeats, the latest being their retreat in the Battle of South Shendi yesterday,” RSF said.
RSF condemned the SAF’s actions, denouncing them as “barbaric” and “terror-driven.”
The Sudanese group also called on the international and regional community to condemn these violations of international law.
RSF also warned that if the destructive practices of SAF continue, it will be forced to halt the flow of crude oil.
Sudan has been mired by fighting between the army, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who is the head of the ruling Sovereign Council, and the RSF.
At least 13,900 people have been killed and more than eight million displaced in the conflict that started in April 2023, according to UN figures.
Several cease-fire agreements brokered by Saudi Arabia and US mediators have failed to end the violence.
