Sudan sources say South Sudanese among captured RSF members as war rages

According to sources in the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), South Sudanese soldiers are fighting alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in battles that have erupted this week in a central region of the nation.

More than 10 people were taken on Thursday in Kazqil and al-Rayash in the north of North Kordofan State, according to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera.

They added that Sudan is set to address South Sudan’s government and that these individuals have provided official documentation of their involvement in the RSF.

RSF security adviser al-Basha Tabiq reported on Thursday evening that Hamid Ali Abubakar, security adviser to RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, was killed along with several aides in a drone attack by the SAF near Zalingei, the capital of Central Darfur state.

“Commander Adviser Hamid Ali Abubakar,” who also led the RSF’s “al-Saif al-Battar,” which is primarily active in the northern, central, and western parts of the Darfur region, was announced in a Facebook post.

Tabiq accused the SAF of “assassinating” Abubakar and warned that the country would “pay a high price for this crime.”

Tens of thousands of people have fled in the three Kordofan states, North, West, and South, after weeks of bloody hostilities between the army and the RSF.

worse humanitarian crisis

In the city of Kosti, dozens of families have arrived from Kordofan and Darfur, only to find dwindling international support and overcrowded camps.

The Umbro locality of North Darfur State, where intense fighting is still happening as a result of an RSF offensive, was the subject of a warning from the North Darfur Emergency Chambers Council.

More than 6,500 families have been forced to leave the area as a result of the council’s claim that the area is in tragic circumstances.

The RSF is in charge of all five of Sudan’s 18 states in the west, aside from some of the region’s northern regions, which are still under the control of the army.

In addition, the army controls the majority of the remaining 13 states’ southern, northern, eastern, and central regions, including Khartoum, in order to maintain military dominance.