The Sudanese army said on Friday that it had killed Ali Yaqoub Jibril, commander of the Central Darfur sector of the Rapid Support Forces, during a battle in El Fasher.

Reuters indicated that Jibril was subject to US sanctions.

The Sudanese army said in a statement that it had thwarted a Rapid Support attack on the city of El Fasher, indicating that the Rapid Support had suffered heavy personnel losses.

The statement said that the Rapid Support launched an attack on El Fasher this morning, and that the armed forces and the joint force thwarted “the attack and inflicted on them heavy losses represented by hundreds of deaths and injuries, including their commander Ali Yaqoub, who was killed in the failed attack attempt.”

The force, which consists of armed movements that have left neutrality and are fighting alongside the army, stated in a statement that it had killed more than 1,000 of what it described as “mercenaries from the Janjaweed” and other Rapid Support Forces, led by Ali Yaqoub, the commander and supervisor of the “massacres” in El Fasher. .

"The legend is over"

The statement said that the joint force destroyed more than 60 military vehicles, took control of 40 other four-wheel drive military vehicles, 7 armored vehicles, and 3 buses for supplies and ammunition, and captured more than 43 Rapid Support personnel, indicating that inventory operations are still ongoing.

The statement added that with the killing of Ali Yaqoub, the legend of the Rapid Support militia ended forever and the end of its forces began, “which committed all kinds of brutal crimes against our people in all of Sudan, especially in Darfur.”

In a statement, the army described the new Rapid Support attack on El Fasher as a “new challenge” to the recent UN Security Council resolution calling for stopping the attack and lifting the siege on the city.

A source in the Rapid Support Forces confirmed in statements to the Arab World News Agency that Yaqoub, the commander of the support forces in Central Darfur, was killed during battles in the city of El Fasher today.

According to Doctors Without Borders, the fighting in El Fasher, western Sudan, resulted in the deaths of 226 people, it reported.

The relief organization said in a statement on Thursday night that between May 10 and June 11, “a total of 1,418 wounded arrived at the South Hospital, and after its closure, they arrived at the Saudi Hospital, and 226 of them died.”

Yesterday, Thursday, the UN Security Council voted by a majority in favor of a draft resolution calling on the Rapid Support Forces to immediately stop the siege of the city of El Fasher in North Darfur state.

The United Nations said that the resolution also calls for “an immediate cessation of fighting, a reduction in escalation in and around El Fasher, and the withdrawal of all fighters who threaten the safety and security of civilians.”