Monday 16 / December / 2024
El Fasher: A leading rebel commander was among those killed in the besieged north Darfur city of El Fasher, the latest flashpoint in Sudan's ongoing civil war, the army said on Friday.
In a social media statement, the Sudanese army said Ali Yagoub Gibril, a commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who was under US sanctions, was among hundreds killed and injured in confrontations between the rebels and the army.
The announcement closely followed a United Nations Security Council resolution passed on Thursday. It called on Sudan's RSF to halt the siege of El Fasher, a city of 1.8 million people, and immediately end violence there.
