A large joint force of paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, army soldiers, and other Sudanese security forces has been deployed along the border with the Central African Republic (CAR).
Brig Gen Abshar Jibril Balayil, Commander of the joint force, told Sudan News Agency (SUNA) from Um Dukhun in Central Darfur on Wednesday that the force was formed to secure the border strip between Sudan and CAR.
In a bid to break the political stalemate between a number of political groups in Sudan over important but thorny in the Final Agreement on the coming transitional period, Egypt has presented a new platform for dialogue between the parties.
Two people were killed, and four others injured in an attack on a market south of the Hameedia camp for the displaced in Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur, on Wednesday. Camp residents told Radio Dabanga that a trader was stabbed to death at his stall at the Moreen market, following a dispute with a person over a bank payment. The police arrested the alleged debtor, after which relatives of the accused reportedly killed the trader.
The commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Vice-President of the Sovereignty Council, Gen Mohamed ‘Hemeti’ Dagalo arrived in Nyala, capital of South Darfur yesterday, where he held a closed meeting with the South Darfur Security Committee, concerning about the attacks on a number of villages in Beleil, south-east of the state capital last week. Hemeti also witnessed the concussion of the eight-day conference of the RSF.
Gen Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemeti’ Dagalo, Commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Vice-President of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, said that any member of the police and other security forces will be held accountable if they violate the law during a speech in Khartoum on Saturday. Impunity and accountability have been contentious issues in negotiations between civilians and the military.