General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the de facto leader of Sudan since the 2021 coup, today fired his second-in-command-turned-enemy General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, more than a month after the outbreak of war between the two male armies.

“General Burhan has issued a constitutional decree appointing Malik Agar as Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, effective today,” in place of General Daglo, the body said in a statement.

But General Burhan, who was its President, and General Daglo, or “Khemedi”, Vice President, carried out a coup in October 2021, expelling citizens from this body.

Hailing from the Blue Nile state on the border with Ethiopia, of which he was governor, Agar signed a peace deal with the authorities in Khartoum in 2020, when he was a rebel leader. He has been a member of the Dominion Council since February 2021.

His organization, SPLA-North, was formed in 2011 by rebel members who remained in Sudan after South Sudan’s independence that year.

In 2017, it split into a wing calling for a people’s state as a condition of a peace deal, and another wing led by Agar.

Negotiations stalled

Prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the army of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, already one in three people in the country of 45 million people suffered from hunger.

Now there is even less food. In Khartoum, home to five million people, those who have not fled remain in their homes, forced to cut back on food and run out of money as banks are closed.

Sudan’s agri-food sector, already on its knees after a 20-year embargo under Omar al-Bashir’s dictatorship that took effect in 2019, has been further hit by shelling that damaged homes, hospitals and government buildings in Khartoum and elsewhere. cities.

The Samil factory, which produced, according to UNICEF, “60% of food for malnourished children”, was destroyed.

Humanitarian aid was looted. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced that “armed men entered a warehouse in Khartoum on Tuesday and robbed” at least “two food trucks.”

Despite chaos in Khartoum and Darfur province on the border with Chad, where fighting has clashed between tribals and civilians, negotiations for a humanitarian truce appear to be heading nowhere.

“We need to tell these generals to stop fighting completely,” said Kenyan President William Ruto.

According to: APE-MPE, AFP