After Drone Strikes in White Nile… TSC Says Sudanese People Alone Who Decide on War

The Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) said on Sunday that the Sudanese people alone who decide on matters of war, in its first response to proposals by the Quartet Mechanism calling for a truce. The statement came shortly after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched drone strikes on civilian sites in White Nile State, southern Sudan.

At dawn, the army repelled an RSF attack using suicide drones that targeted the Um Dabakir thermal power station, fuel depots, the civilian airport in Kenana, and the nearby airbase.

In a statement, the TSC said: “It was only hours after the Quartet Mechanism issued a statement on Sudan, calling for peace and an end to the war, when the rebel militia launched suicide drones targeting civilian infrastructure in a systematic attempt to destroy it.”

It confirmed that the RSF attacked Um Dabakir power station, fuel depots, and Kenana civilian airport in White Nile.

“This war is directed against the Sudanese people, and it is they who will confront it and decide on it alone,” the Council stressed.

On Friday, the Quartet group – comprising the United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates – called for a three-month humanitarian truce leading to a permanent ceasefire, to be followed by a transitional process within nine months, culminating in the formation of a civilian government.

The Quartet emphasized that Sudan’s political future should be determined by Sudanese themselves, through a transition free from control by the warring parties and without external imposition from extremist groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The TSC described the RSF drone assault on White Nile civilian sites as a “criminal attack” and a continuation of “a long record of war crimes and crimes against humanity” committed by the militia.

It further noted that such assaults have become a systematic behavior of the RSF amid what it termed as “suspicious regional and international silence.”