Sudanese paramilitaries at war with the country’s military for over two years claimed to have seized a strategic area along the border with neighbouring Libya and Egypt.
The Rapid Support Forces said in a statement Wednesday (June 11, 2025) that they captured the triangular zone, fortifying their presence along Sudan’s already volatile border with chaos-stricken Libya.
The RSF’s announcement came hours after the military said it had evacuated the area as part of “its defensive arrangements to repel aggression” by the paramilitaries.
On Tuesday (June 10, 2025) the military accused the forces of powerful Libyan commander Khalifa Hifter of supporting the RSF’s attack on the area, in a “blatant aggression against Sudan, its land, and its people.”
Hifter’s forces, which control eastern and southern Libya, rejected the claim, saying in a statement that the Sudanese accusations were “a blatant attempt to export the Sudanese internal crisis and create a virtual external enemy.”
