Sudan: Coordinators of the Resistance Committees of the state of Khartoum – Important statement for the Sudanese people (16.04.2023)

We are not neutral, because we are in a peaceful battle since the era of the ousted Al-Bashir until now against the militarization of the country and the control of guns on the streets. We started with our peacefulness and we will continue with it to achieve our goals against all parties to the war now taking place in the streets of the country. Al-Burhan and Hemeti are enemies of the revolution and the revolutionaries. On its way, we will win, because we are against war and against any outcome that results from it. Both belligerents do not care about the security and safety of our people, so we call on them not to settle their scores among the innocent citizens.

– We ask the revolutionaries in the neighborhoods to arrange ranks in the current situation, and to prepare to provide the basic requirements of our people in their areas according to the current conditions.

We ask the resistance committees in each neighborhood to follow as they see fit:

Monitoring the situation on the ground and reporting what is happening in and around each neighborhood periodically to prevent rumors, and convey the facts as they are, in order to be a reliable source for our people.

Formation of medical rooms for possible injuries and in anticipation of any emergency.

Monitoring the conditions of food supplies in the neighborhood, especially with the possibility of prolonging the current war, and examining the conditions of our people in these difficult circumstances.

Monitoring the security situation in the neighborhood and ensuring that children and the elderly are kept away from the areas of clashes.

Raising the slogan #لا_للحرب and not responding to any calls for armament because it will lead us to civil war.

The only loser from the war is the people, so let’s unite to overcome it.

We call on civil and humanitarian society organizations, Red Crescent and Red Cross organizations, Doctors Without Borders, and the Preliminary Committee of the Sudan Doctors Syndicate to activate their role in aiding the wounded and injured, transferring them to safe places, and providing aids for the Sudanese people to overcome this ordeal.

– Finally, we have mercy on all the innocent citizens who fell dead, and we consider them martyrs with God Almighty, and we wish a speedy recovery for the injured and the safe return of the missing.

May God protect our people, the military is in the barracks and the Janjaweed are dissolving.

Coordinators of the resistance committees of the state of Khartoum

April 16, 2023

▪️The signatories:

Haj Youssef Neighborhoods Committees Gathering

Marine Biology Committees

Coordinated by East Nile South

– Coordination of the Greater Omdurman Resistance Committees

– Coordination of the resistance committees of the city of Khartoum

Sudan: Sudanese Congress Party – Statement No. 2 (16.04.2023)

Statement No. (2) on the security situation following the outbreak of bloody clashes between the Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces

We renew the call for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a return to dialogue.

We call on both parties to the conflict to open safe passages for civilians.

our steadfast people;

The machine of killing and destruction continues to kill the daughters and sons of our people and shed Sudanese blood since yesterday morning, Saturday, October 15, 2023 AD, after the remnants of the defunct regime kindled the flames of discord and discord between the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces, as the areas of clashes expanded to include most of the cities of Sudan, more than sixty civilian martyrs and more than six hundred wounded according to preliminary statistics, this is from the non-military on both sides, and we expect that these numbers will far exceed what has been announced due to the state of complete paralysis in which the country is living and the difficulty of movement and careful monitoring.

We in the Sudanese Congress Party have mercy on the souls of the martyrs and send prayers for recovery to the injured civilians and military, and we repeat our call to the leaders of the People’s Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to cease fire immediately, act as the voice of wisdom and reason, and give room for mediation efforts and resort to negotiation to resolve the existing conflict peacefully, the Sudanese blood that is bleeding from the civilians and the military is all precious, and the unity of the homeland and its soil is in the wind, and everyone loses in this conflict except for the remnants of the defunct regime, and we also call for the opening of safe corridors to deliver the injured and sick to hospitals and the passage of ambulances, and facilitating medical supply operations, and to the evacuation of many civilians stranded in various locations where fighting is raging, including patients, students, school students, female employees, and male and female employees, we also urge female and male citizens to move away from the areas of clashes, stay in their homes, and not risk leaving unless absolutely necessary.

We appeal to international institutions, human rights organizations and brotherly and friendly countries to actively contribute to stopping the fighting in Sudan and to work to push the two sides to resort to peaceful solutions, and to provide the required logistical support to the Sudanese people in these exceptional circumstances.

We believe that the resumption of the political process, leading to the signing of the final political agreement, would defuse the crisis, quell the fire of sedition, spare the blood of our people, and fulfill their aspirations for the establishment of a civil authority that would resume the path of civil democratic transformation.

Our people lived free and victorious

Media secretariat

April 16, 2023 AD

Sudan: Sudan Central Doctors Committee – A preliminary inventory of the events of April 15th (16.04.2023)

Sudanese men and women woke up on the morning of April 15, 2023, to the tragedy of clashes between the People’s Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. These clashes resulted in a large number of deaths and moderate and critical injuries.

We call for the predominance of the voice of reason and an immediate cessation of absurd fire, which claimed the lives of innocent, unarmed civilians, and safe passages must be opened to evacuate the detainees, the stranded, and the injured to provide them with first aid.

The total number of dead and injured who were counted from hospitals and health facilities:

– The total number of civilian deaths was (56).

Dozens of deaths among the military (some of them were treated in regular hospitals, and some of them are outside our scope.

– The total number of injuries reached (595), including military injuries, dozens of whom were in critical condition.

Disclaimer:

– Some cases of military injuries and deaths have been transferred to regular hospitals, and some are beyond our scope.

– There are injuries and deaths among civilians who were unable to reach hospitals and health facilities due to the difficulty of movement and the regular forces’ interception of ambulances and paramedics.

Khartoum:

– (25) deaths, including (17) civilians and (8) military personnel.

– Injuries (302) cases.

Marine:

– The dead (8) cases, including (7) civilians and (1) military

– Injuries (86) cases.

Omdurman:

– (11) deaths, including (7) civilians and (4) military personnel

– Injuries (42) cases.

Territories:

– The dead (25) cases, including both civilians and military personnel

– Injuries (165) cases.

April 16, 2023

Sudan: The Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) – Statement (16.04.2023)

Today, the battles that broke out since yesterday morning in various parts of the country between the Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces continue, and their pace is escalating in a way that threatens the unity, cohesion and sovereignty of the homeland.

We in the Forces for Freedom and Change have been sounding the alarm about the plans of the remnants of the defunct National Congress regime to drag the country into a war that will not leave or leave, with the aim of blocking the road to restoring the path of civil democratic transition, and here are their plans clearly revealed after igniting the fuse of the battle, to make it clear that they are the party that mobilized for this war and they are the ones who hope to harvest its results.

We call on the leadership of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the leadership of the Rapid Support Forces to arbitrate the voice of wisdom, stop military confrontations immediately, and return to the negotiating tables. The outstanding issues cannot be resolved by war, and the best option for our country is to address them peacefully through political solutions.

We also call on the masses of our people to confront the plans of the remnants of the defunct National Congress regime and not to allow them to be passed under any cover whatsoever, and to abandon hate speech, incitement and fueling war.

May God protect Sudan and its people from all evil

Freedom and Change Forces – Executive Office

April 16, 2023 AD

Sudan: 11 Union Bodies – Joint Statement (15.04.2023)

Our country stands today at a crossroads. After the setback of its promising revolution, its headline has become the security breakdown and arbitrary killing in several villages and cities, especially in the region of Darfur.

This has been accompanied by the country’s descent into open military confrontations between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, a war that will lead the country to chaos and threaten its existence if we do not stand firm against it and contain it.

The national capital, Khartoum, woke up this morning, Saturday, April 15, to the sound of gunfire and the buzzing of planes, and reports of civilian casualties. This imminent danger requires that those concerned call for a ceasefire from both sides and appeal to reason to stand firmly against the destructive plans that aim to abort the glorious revolution project and its ambition to transform the country into a democratic civil state of freedom, peace, and justice.

The phenomenon of deteriorating security began decades ago in the state of Darfur, South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile, and it would not have started at all if it were not for the Muslim Brotherhood coup and its insistence on tearing the country apart and humiliating its peaceful citizens. Now, this phenomenon has extended beyond that geographical scope to spread throughout the country.

The recent clashes in the Marawi area in the Northern State witnessed sharp tensions, leading to military confrontations due to the competition between the army and the Rapid Support Forces. These have been fueled by the surrounding regional influences that have become evident in the Sudanese scene, with the intervention of elements of the ousted regime through media mobilisation and work, apparent and hidden, to spread the message of hate.

This ongoing crisis is the result of the desire of many parties to maintain their dubious interests within Sudan. In Darfur alone, and during the past week, with the participation of cross-border groups, the region of Forbaranga was attacked, where 25 people were killed and thousands were displaced in addition to dozens of injuries. The region of Kundube in West Darfur witnessed the killing of six people. In North Darfur state, an armed militia attacked the area of Luwabid, 40 km from El Fasher, the capital of the state, where a bank vehicle was attacked, four employees were killed and the money (salaries) was seized, in addition to other incidents.

Sensing the national and moral responsibility, and what the national conscience dictates in this critical historical situation that the country is going through, many union bodies met in the headquarters of the Sudanese Journalists’ Union in Khartoum and agreed to confront attempts to create sedition and destabilise the country, and to stand against war, security breakdown, and impunity, hoping to take serious steps through which the voice of reason and wisdom prevails, and to defuse the crises and conflicts that have escalated.

Efforts will continue to discuss the crises, produce solutions, and call on all unions and civil bodies to undertake their role and participate in the responsibility of stopping the war and security breakdown.

Signed union bodies:

1.Sudanese Journalists’ Union

2.Steering Committee of the Sudanese Bar Association

3.Bahri Industrial Zone committees

4.Sudan Unions Solidarity

5.The Preparatory Committee of the Union of Professors at Sudan University of Science and Technology

6.The Steering Committee for the Federation of Sudanese Engineers

7.Sudanese Teachers Committee

8.Sudanese Writers’ Union

9.The Preparatory Committee of the Pharmacists Union – Khartoum State

10.Darfur Lawyers Association

11.The University of Khartoum Teaching Staff Trade Union

South Sudan: His Excellency Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan Statement on the Developing Situation in the Sudan (15.04.2023)

Sudan: Hemeti cannot afford to fail with this coup attempt now…

We would hand him (Al-Burhan) over to to justice or he must die like a dog” – Lt. Gen Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti

The Rapid Support Forces control 90% of the military areas in Sudan.

– I am speaking in front of the General Command of the Armed Forces and my forces are inside it.

– Al-Burhan hides under the ground and pushes people’s children to fight.

The Inspector General and a number of officers joined the Rapid Support Forces.

– Those who are fighting the RSF now are the Mujahideen and the militias of the Islamic Movement, not the army.

– El Geneina airport was seized, and the commander of the 16th Division, Nyala, voluntarily surrendered.

– We salute the commander of the 16th Division, Nyala, as he is a sane and patriotic person and declared his support for the people’s choice.

– Our message to our Egyptian brothers is to keep your children safe and secure, and we are ready to hand them over to the Egyptian government.

The Egyptian battalion is not considered an enemy and surrendered without resistance.

– What happened is a price for democracy, and we made a pledge to ourselves that power belongs to the people.

– We were forced to confront and we cannot surrender.

Rumors about officers from the Rapid Support Forces joining the army are baseless.

– We have a large stock of weapons and ammunition, and we have received more than 200 armored vehicles” (Rapid Support Forces, 15.04.2023).

Today, the full fledge war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) came into full effect. The results are all across Sudan. To get verified information is nearly hopeless. While both parties claims victories and that it has overtaken vital bases, positions and military installations. As well, as bounties of weapons, ammunitions and vehicles for that matter.

This isn’t a battle for democracy or for a civilian transition. No, this is to conquer and be the Head of State. It is a battle between Al-Burhan and Hemeti. These two are now fighting to stay ahead. This is the third coup d’etat Hemeti is participating and leading in. His RSF has been vital and important in the previous ones. Now it is ordered to overthrow the current regime.

That’s why the brutality and the civilian casualties will rise. The RSF has already massacres civilians for decades. They have killed and silenced dissidents. It was a tool of the Al-Bashir era and now it’s ordered to finish off the National Army. That’s because of the distrust between the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council.

The game is the game and this one is rigged. It is military commanders and the relics of the tyranny of Al-Bashir that is wrecking havoc on the Republic. Men who has been the warlords and henchmen of the brutal dictatorship of the past. These men who has won honours and privileges by doing so. They have earned currency and titles by serving with viciousness. Instead of doing it on unarmed civilians. They are now pointing the guns against themselves. Not to further the transition or civilian government. No, this is done to become the Head of State and take power. This is a struggle to conquer and rule supreme.

That’s why this is so bloody and will be so sinister. Everything is on the table and quickly the situation can go from being friendly to deadly. Former brothers-in-arms are squaring off against each other and calling each other “illegitimate”. Only doing so to silence and get the throne. Here is Al-Burhan trying to keep his office and Hemeti fighting to take him down. The ones who has taken down Al-Bashir, demoted Hamdok and stopped the transition. Now the same gentlemen are in a huge sword fight to win the crown. This is a bloody battle and everything is on the line. If Hemeti looses, he has lost it all. If Al-Burhan looses, he has lost it all. That’s the game here and this is why none of these men will back down. They have already fired the guns and now the bullets has to be accounted for. Peace.

Tchad: Presidence de Transition – Primature – Ministere de la Communication – Communique du Gouvernement No. 004 (15.04.2023)

Sudan: Sudan Central Doctors Committee – Important Statement (15.04.2023)

Residents of Khartoum and Merowe woke up this morning to the sounds of gunfire amid panic, fear and anticipation from the citizens as a result of the clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.

These events took place in residential neighborhoods, which led to varying injuries and serious cases among citizens, and the injuries are still ongoing accidents flock to different hospitals.

In these complex circumstances, we appeal to the forces of both parties to show the utmost wisdom and restraint to preserve the security and safety of the homeland, and we also demand the necessity of implementing the protocols of the World Health Organization, the Red Cross and others in protecting medical personnel, civilians and the injured. Inside and outside hospitals, we also appeal to citizens to be in their places and not to be in the areas of clashes.

We appeal to all doctors to go to the nearest hospital to their place of residence to help treat the injured, especially in the south of Khartoum and Bahri.

April 15, 2023

South Sudan: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – Press Release on the Unfolding Situation in the Sudan (15.04.2023)