Sudan’s army leader, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has conducted visits to two strategic bases in the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city, Omdurman.
These visits come in the wake of recent losses on the battlefield to rivals from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over the past week.
The state-run Sudan TV aired Gen Burhan’s inspection of troops at the Wadi Saidna and Karari bases on Tuesday.
While the RSF claimed to have seized three army headquarters in Darfur, witnessed hundreds of soldiers defecting to their group (including in Khartoum), and captured the airport in West Kordofan since October 26, Gen Burhan downplayed these assertions.
He accused the RSF of launching attacks despite ongoing peace talks in Saudi Arabia, asserting that the military remained resolute in their determination to continue the fight.
However, Gen Burhan also emphasized the army’s commitment to negotiations in Jeddah aimed at ending the war that began in mid-April.
The army had previously explained its withdrawal from Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, was due to a shortage of supplies. Mediation efforts are being led by Saudi Arabia, the United States, the African Union (AU), and the trade bloc Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad).