Tag: Wad

General Burhan blames fall of Wad Madani on ‘negligence’

Sudan’s army chief has lambasted “negligent” commanders after a rival paramilitary group captured the strategic city of Wad Madani. The army had been criticised for leaving the capital of Gezira state, without putting up a fight. More than 300,000 people have fled Gezira, which had been seen as a safe haven in eight-month the civil […]

Sudan’s RSF Advances on Wad Madani as Eight-Month-Old War Spreads

DUBAI (Reuters) – Sudan’s army was trying to hold off attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday near Wad Madani, a major city that had been sheltered from fighting and taken in hundreds of thousands of civilians during eight months of war. Clashes in the area, about 170 km (105 miles) southeast of […]