Clashes renewed in Darfur region of Sudan

SANAA, Sept. 29 (YPA) – The Sudanese army announced that it had responded, on Monday, to an attack launched on one of its sites in Darfur by a rebel movement that did not join the peace agreement signed by initials on August 31 between Khartoum and the majority of the rebel movements in the region in the west of the country.
According to “Agence France Presse,” the army said in a statement that “in light of the ceasefire and the commitment of the armed forces to this, forces belonging to the” Sudan Liberation Army “movement, Abdul Wahid Muhammad Nour’s wing, attacked our forces in the Baldong area of ​​Jebel Marra.

“Our forces stationed at the site confronted them with all boldness and valor, repelled the attack and fled,” the statement added, without further details.

Abdel Wahid Mohamed Nour, who lives in Paris, did not participate in the negotiations that took place in Juba between the Sudanese government and the rebel movements in Darfur and Kordofan, which resulted in an agreement on August 31 aimed at ending a conflict that caused tens of thousands of deaths.

After the initials of the agreement, it is expected to be finally signed on the third of next October by the leaders of the rebel movements and the transitional government that took power last year after the army ousted President Omar al-Bashir.

Khartoum concluded a peace agreement with the Sudan Revolutionary Front, which is an alliance of five rebel groups and four political movements from each of the Darfur region, where the conflict broke out in 2003, and from the regions of South Kordofan and Blue Nile (south), where the conflict erupted in 2011 after years of interruption. The war between North and South Sudan (198-2005).