KHARTOUM: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces launched coordinated attacks on Monday in the Kordofan region in a bid to isolate a strategic city, while also carrying out assaults on towns along the border with Chad, paramilitary and army sources said.
Paramilitary fighters simultaneously hit the North Kordofan city of Bara, according to a paramilitary source, as well as the South Kordofan city of Dilling, according to another from the army, striking two stepping stones on the way to the major hub of El-Obeid.
Kordofan is currently the fiercest battlefield in the three-year war between the army and the paramilitary that has killed tens of thousands and created the world’s largest hunger and displacement crises.
Near-daily drone strikes kill dozens at a time across the region, where hundreds of thousands are threatened by mass starvation.
The paramilitary source said “our forces have recaptured Bara,” which lies on a key highway linking the army-held capital Khartoum with El-Obeid, Kordofan’s biggest city.
