The war is back in South Sudan 🇸🇸
While the Sudanese Army in Sudan🇸🇩 is about to liberate the capital Khartoum, the South Sudanese Army is fighting against former rebel near the border.
Ugandan 🇺🇬 armed forces are entering South Sudan to help government forces.
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The information is important, in central Khartoum, Sudanese Armed Forces resumed offensive on 2 axes, one to join the armoured corps with the general command and one to cut the Jebel Aulia bridge, last one under RSF controll, suggesting a possible large victory.
Based on @VistaMaps the SAF managed to lift the encirclement of the armoured corps, thus encircling RSF in the presidential palace and Tuti Island today.
2 weeks ago, the SAF liberated the last part of territory where encircled RSF soldiers were still present in Sannar state.
Now, fightings erupted between RSF remnants and South Sudanese garrison near the border.
At the same time, the White Army, a rebel group partly affiliated with the SPLM-iO, the opposition group which waged a war between 2013 and 2020 and is now part of the government launched a serie of attacks against the South Sudanese Army. The SLPM-iO is said to be supported by the Sudanese (north) armed forces, while the south sudanese government forces are closer with the RSF.
Since the SAF are winning decisive victory against the RSF near the border, the SAF may try to support rebel opposition in the South. This White Army, which is not controlled by the SPLM-iO but is defending the rights of an ethnic minority the « Nuer » is attacking government forces after tensions between the president Kiir (Dinka ethny) and the vice president Machar (Nuer ethny).
They captured a base in Nasir. Today, videos have emerged of large Ugandan People Defense Forces (UPDF) convoys riding through South Sudan to help president Kiir. Uganda is an important ally of the president and the reinforcements will be used against a possible new insurrection.
Here is the official communique from South Sudan on the intervention of the UPDF inside the territory of South Sudan.
+ the tweet from the son of Ugandan president, chief of the army
Also, see here the communique of the White Army
This night in Nasir, the South Sudanese Air Force bombed the airport and the city of Nasir.
With the wars in Sudan, South Sudan and Congo, it is now easy to find who is allied with who in the whole region, here is a map :
A regional alliance between Rwanda (+M23), Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan and RSF is more and more visible.
The situation in Sudan and South Sudan is very important for the whole region and I will continue to follow the events.
I will also post informations in @atummundi about the topic.
