Sudanese Christians were injured Sunday in a church shooting in Omdurman, two generals embroiled in a merciless war for power in Sudan said in the camps, blaming each other for the attack.

“Continuing the path of violating international laws and customs, paramilitary rebels (…) opened fire inside the temple [της συνοικίας] Masalama in Omdurman,” the army under the command of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said in a statement, referring to the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

“RSF condemns the shelling by an extremist terrorist organization linked to the coup forces inside the Mar Jirjis church in the Al-Masalam district of Omdurman, causing serious injuries to worshipers,” General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo’s paramilitaries said in their own statement.

At the same time, they denounced “the campaign to discredit our forces, which are largely made up of Christians.”

Envoys from the two rival generals are currently negotiating in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to implement the “declaration on the protection of civilians in Sudan” they signed on Thursday, which marks a month since the conflicts began on Monday.

The text, negotiated by both sides, brokered by Saudi Arabia and the United States, provides for the creation of “safe corridors” to allow civilians to leave areas where conflicts rage, as well as facilities for the distribution of humanitarian aid.

However, it is not talking about a ceasefire, but only about future negotiations on a temporary ceasefire, and then on “extended negotiations on a permanent cessation of hostilities”, which are already a month old and have claimed the lives of at least 750 people. official figures, considered grossly underestimated, injured at least 5,000 people and turned 900,000 Sudanese into internally displaced persons and refugees.

Authorities estimate that Christians make up 3% of the population, but Sudanese Christian churches say the figure is much higher.

The minority, which includes Copts, Catholics, Anglicans and others, was largely forced underground when the African country was ruled by the military and Islamist dictatorship of General Omar El-Bashir (1989-2019).

^{Source: APE-MEB}