Minawi’s movement calls on SAF to take urgent action to save El-Fashir

A spokesman for the Sudan Liberation Army Movement (SLAM), led by Minni Arko Minawi, called on the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) commandership on Sunday to take swift action to save El-Fashir, which is facing a violent attack by the terrorist Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.

The movement’s appeal came shortly after the militia announced its control of Zamzam camp.

In a statement, the SLAM spokesman, Al-Sadig Ali Al-Nour, called on the army commadership to act quickly to save the lives of approximately 1.5 million people in El-Fashir by supporting the army, the joint force, and their supporters. This should happen as soon as possible to avoid a catastrophic situation, as happened in El-Geneina, he added.

Al-Nour pointed out that the brutal, barbaric attack on Zamzam camp led to the displacement of tens of thousands of people on foot toward El-Fashir. El-Fashir’s homes were too small to accommodate them, so they entered shelters and schools, sleeping on the ground under the shade of trees or under the scorching sun, lacking drinking water, food, and medicine.

He revealed that military and relief airstrikes have ceased, leading to the spread of information among the IDPs that the aircraft would no longer drop aid.

Al-Nour stated that the militia is continuing its dirty path of ethnic cleansing, as happened in El-Geneina and elsewhere. They boast of their racism and document their crimes themselves through videos. This is damning evidence that the militia seeks to bring about demographic change throughout Darfur and attract new settlers from the Arab diaspora.” He believed that the fall of El-Fashir would mean the subsequent fall of other Sudanese cities.

The spokesman questioned the fate of the force that was prepared more than two months ago to move from Al-Dabba in the northern state to lift the siege imposed on El-Fashir.

Last February, Yassir Al-Atta l-Atta, a member of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, and Minni Arko Minawi, the governor of Darfur Region, addressed a large military gathering of the army and the joint force in the city of Al-Dabba in the Northern State. At the time, Al-Atta and Minawi stated that the force was ready to move to end the siege of El-Fashir.