Al-Burhan rejects an African proposal to meet Hamidti

Sources in the Sudanese Sovereignty Council said that the army commander, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, did not agree to African proposals regarding holding a meeting with the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as “Hemedti.”

On Monday, Kenyan President William Ruto pledged to arrange a meeting between the two warring generals Sudan In an effort to end the crisis afflicting the country after the failure of many ceasefire agreements, according to what the Kenyan presidency announced.

In addition, United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric stated that the envoy of the Secretary-General, Volker Peretz, is working from Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, on the Sudanese file.

The spokesman said that the United Nations continues to discuss several issues with the Sudanese authorities, noting that there are 42,000 people stranded on Tuti Island in Khartoum who do not have access to health care and other basic services.

In his statements, Dujarric drew attention to the arrival of humanitarian aid to about two million people during the past three weeks, and the United Nations spokesman stressed the need to secure a safe passage for the distribution of relief materials to civilians.

The head of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, warned of the outbreak of civil war in Sudan and the spread of chaos if the war did not end.

Faki said in a speech during an IGAD conference that the African Union encourages a comprehensive national dialogue led by the Sudanese themselves.

For the second day in a row, the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, witnessed fierce fighting with cannons and aircraft between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, after a short 24-hour truce that ended on Sunday morning.

Residents in the south of the capital said that air raids targeted, on Monday morning, the positions of the Rapid Support Forces at the campgrounds and the sports city, in addition to artillery shelling, as shells continued to fall on neighborhoods south of Khartoum.

And the emergency room in southern Khartoum announced, on Sunday evening, that 18 people were killed as a result of what it described as the indiscriminate shelling of some neighborhoods and the fall of a number of wounded, saying that the citizens “lived a difficult and bloody day.”

The East Nile Emergency Room also indicated, in a statement, that two people were killed when an indiscriminate shell hit a residential area.

Eyewitnesses said in the city of Omdurman that violent clashes took place on Sunday morning between the two parties to the conflict in the north of the city.

The Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces exchanged accusations of launching attacks, as the army said that the Rapid Support Forces launched artillery and missile strikes on residential areas in southern Khartoum, on Sunday, and renewed shelling on some of them on Monday morning.

On the other hand, the Rapid Support Forces accused the army of continuing to attack them in a number of axes in the capital’s cities.

Fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces suddenly broke out in mid-April, while the military and civilian parties were putting the final touches on an internationally backed political process.

That political process was supposed to end with elections within two years, but the two sides had fallen out over plans to integrate the RSF into the army.

The two sides agreed to more than one truce during the ongoing battles between them for nearly two months, but they repeatedly accused each other of violating it.