Sudanese army accuses Libya’s Haftar of joint border attack with RSF

The announcement marks the archetypal clip nonstop Libyan engagement successful Sudan’s ongoing warfare has been alleged.

The Sudanese service has accused the forces of eastbound Libyan subject commandant Khalifa Haftar of attacking Sudanese borderline posts, the archetypal clip it has accused its northwestern neighbour of nonstop engagement successful the country’s civilian war, present successful its 3rd year.

The warfare betwixt the Sudanese service and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), whom the subject besides accused of associated engagement successful the caller attack, has drawn successful aggregate countries, portion planetary attempts astatine bringing astir bid person truthful acold failed.

Early successful the war, Sudan had accused Haftar of supporting the RSF via weapons deliveries. It has agelong accused Haftar’s state the United Arab Emirates of supporting the RSF arsenic well, including via nonstop drone strikes past month. The UAE denies those allegations.

Egypt, which has besides backed Haftar, has agelong supported the Sudanese army.

In a statement, Sudanese service spokesperson Nabil Abdallah said the onslaught took spot successful the Libya-Egypt-Sudan borderline triangle, an country to the northbound of 1 of the war’s main beforehand lines, el-Fasher, the superior of North Darfur.

He said the onslaught constitutes “a blatant aggression against Sudan”.

“We volition support our state and our nationalist sovereignty, and volition prevail, careless of the grade of the conspiracy and aggression supported by the United Arab Emirates and its militias successful the region,” Abdallah added.

Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the UAE of backing the assault, describing it arsenic a “dangerous escalation” and a “flagrant usurpation of planetary law”.

“Sudan’s borderline with Libya has agelong served arsenic a large corridor for weapons and mercenaries supporting the violent militia, funded by the UAE and coordinated by Haftar’s forces and affiliated violent groups,” it said successful a statement.

There was nary contiguous effect from Haftar’s forces.

The RSF has not issued an authoritative statement, but a root wrong the radical said that its fighters had taken power connected Monday of the entranceway to Jebel Uweinat, a distant upland country that sits wherever the 3 countries meet, according to the AFP quality agency.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies