The Rapid Support Forces pledged on Thursday to deliver humanitarian aid to the needy in areas under their control, under conditions that prevent the supply of weapons and ammunition to Sudanese army forces.
The RSF announced its categorical rejection of the plan of the Governor of the Darfur region and head of the Sudan Liberation Movement, Minni Arko Minawi, to transport humanitarian aid from the city of Port Sudan (Port Sudan), through the northern state (Dibba), and from there to Darfur.
The Rapid Support Forces said in a statement on the “X” platform, that they reject what Minawi called “an agreement on the delivery of humanitarian aid from Port Sudan through the Dibba Road to Darfur,” and stressed that the agreement does not concern them in anything and will not recognize it and explained that Minawi does not have the right to conclude any agreement or receive relief on behalf of the people of Darfur without authorization.
She explained that “if Minawi is based on the Juba Agreement for the peace of Sudan, the agreement has been torn to pieces by Burhan, and if it is based on the legitimacy of the Port Sudan authority, our valiant forces have liberated all of Darfur from the control of the remnants and their cronies who destroyed it,” according to the vocabulary of the statement.
The statement added: “Accordingly and adhering to our legitimate right to take all necessary precautions for self-defense, we will not allow humanitarian aid to be taken to supply the brigades of the former regime with weapons and ammunition to serve their war agenda or military plans.”
According to irrefutable information and evidence, attempts were being made to bring weapons and ammunition into areas in Darfur and the city of El Fasher in northern Darfur in particular, in order to create tribal strife that would return Darfur to the destructive ethnic conflict, as part of the alliance of some factions of the Darfur movements with “their former torturers in the National Congress and its terrorist battalions, which bombard our helpless people in Darfur daily with barrel bombs”.
It pointed out that it is committed to its previous commitments to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the needy in the areas under its control, but adheres to the custom followed in war, which is that the transfer and delivery of humanitarian aid is carried out by agreement between the parties to the war, or an agreement between the organizations and parties wishing to provide relief and the party controlling the areas to which the organizations and parties intend to deliver relief.
The statement accused Minawi of diverting relief and aid intended for the people of Darfur to his advantage and storing them in order to blackmail citizens and held him fully responsible before the people of Darfur, who she said suffer from famine and lack of food.
She accused army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his “extremist brigades” of selling relief materials in markets, and called on humanitarian actors to deliver humanitarian aid directly to those who deserve it, saying: “For our part, we will cooperate in securing and protecting aid within the areas controlled by our forces.”
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