Footage from northern Khartoum illustrates recent escalation in Sudan's devastating conflict

Описание: (4 Oct 2024)
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Khartoum, Sudan - 30 September 2023
1. Pickup trucks loaded with Sudanese soldiers entering Bahri city in Khartoum
2. Tracking shot of damaged street in Bahri city
3. More pickup trucks loaded with Sudanese soldiers entering Bahri
4. Tracking shot of buildings, damaged cars, soldiers walking in the streets
5. Soldiers greeting each other, shaking hands
6. Tracking shot of soldiers in street
7. Military armoured vehicle loaded with soldiers driving down street
8. Pan from soldiers gathering in the street to machine gun firing from truck
9. Various of soldiers celebrating
10. Various of Halfaya bridge after being opened by Sudanese Army, burnt military vehicle
11.Army vehicle entering the military training institute in Bahari
12. Various of Yasir al-Atta, Sudanese sovereignty council member, greeting officers, soldiers
13. Various of military vehicles, soldiers
STORYLINE:
New fighting rocked Sudan's capital in late September as the Sudanese military launched an operation aimed at taking control of parts of Khartoum that had been in the hands of its enemy, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.

AP footage shot in the immediate aftermath showed dozens of Sudanese soldiers in pickup trucks driving through the damaged roads of Bahri city, to the north of Khartoum, with many more walking through the streets with weapons.

They gathered in the Halfaya area, and there was heavy weapons fire.

The Halfaya Bridge was reopened after being under the control of the Rapid Support Forces, and some military vehicles were seen burned on both sides of the bridge.

The head of Sudan’s military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York last week, saying that “we’ve done everything we could to put an end to this war and to steer our country from the destruction being waged” by the militia.

Since mid-April, Sudan’s military, headed by Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, have been locked in a violent conflict.

According to a spokesperson for the U.N. human rights office in Geneva, at least 78 civilians were killed by fighting in the Khartoum area since the beginning of September.

AP Video by Mohammad Abu Amreen

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