The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) today attacked the West Kordofan State capital, al-Fula, swarming the city on motorbikes, on foot, and on pickup trucks mounted with heavy weapons. They overran the defenders after brief clashes.
“The brigade at Al-Fula has fallen, and the battalion has fallen, and we have received West Kordofan into our hand, and now I am sitting in the office of [Governor] Adam Karshoum,” said Colonel Al-Taj Al-Tijani, the RSF’s West Darfur Sector Commander, in a video filmed today from inside the state secretariat building.
Dozens of people were killed while others were captured, according to videos circulated by RSF combatants this morning.
Sources in the state told Sudan War Monitor that the attack followed the withdrawal of an army force led by Colonel al-Hadi Diab, commander of the 92nd infantry Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Division, from al-Fula toward al-Udayyah and an-Nahud, which left the city under-defended.
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