Africa-Press – Eritrea. Since a coup in October 2021, Sudan has been run by a council of generals and there are two military men at the centre of the dispute.
Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who is the head of the armed forces and in effect the country’s president.
And his deputy and leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti.
They have disagreed on the direction the country is going in, and the proposed move towards civilian rule.
One of the main sticking points is over the plans to include the 100,000-strong RSF into the army – and who would then lead the new force.
The violence follows days of tension as members of the RSF were redeployed around the country in a move that the army saw as a threat.
There had been some hope that talks could resolve the situation but these never happened.
It is not clear who fired the first shot on Saturday morning, but there are fears that these hostilities could worsen an already unstable situation.
Source: bbc
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