Sudan’s paramilitary RSF say they seized key zone bordering Egypt, Libya

The Sudanese Armed Forces accidental they person withdrawn from the country arsenic portion of its ‘defensive arrangements’.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) person said their fighters person seized a strategical portion connected the borderline with Egypt and Libya, arsenic the regular government-aligned army, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), announced its withdrawal from the area.

The announcements connected Wednesday came a time aft SAF accused forces loyal to eastbound Libyan commandant Khalifa Haftar of launching a cross-border onslaught alongside the RSF, the archetypal allegation of nonstop Libyan engagement successful the Sudanese war.

“As portion of its antiaircraft arrangements to repel aggression, our forces contiguous evacuated the triangle country overlooking the borders betwixt Sudan, Egypt and Libya,” service spokesperson Nabil Abdallah said successful a statement.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

القيادة العامة للقوات المسلحة

تعميم صحفي

الأربعاء ١١ يونيو ٢٠٢٥م

في إطار ترتيباتها الدفاعية لصد العدوان، أخلت قواتنا اليوم منطقة المثلث المطلة علي الحدود بين السودان ومصر وليبيا.

(نصر من الله وفتح قريب)

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— القوات المسلحة السودانية (@SudaneseAF) June 11, 2025

Since April 2023, the brutal civilian warfare has pitted SAF main Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against his erstwhile state Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who leads the RSF, successful a bitter powerfulness struggle.

In a connection connected Wednesday, the RSF said its fighters had “liberated the strategical triangle area”, adding that service forces had retreated southward “after suffering dense losses”.

SAF said connected Tuesday that Haftar’s troops, successful coordination with the RSF, attacked its borderline positions successful a determination it called “a blatant aggression against Sudan”.

Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs besides accused the United Arab Emirates of backing the assault, describing it arsenic a “dangerous escalation” and a “flagrant usurpation of planetary law”.

It besides described the latest clash arsenic portion of a broader foreign-backed conspiracy.

Haftar, who controls eastbound Libya, has agelong maintained adjacent ties with some the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.

While Cairo has supported Sudan’s enactment nether Burhan since the warfare began successful April 2023, Khartoum has repeatedly accused the UAE of supplying the RSF with weapons, which the Emirati authorities has denied.

Tensions betwixt Khartoum and Abu Dhabi escalated successful May aft drone strikes deed the wartime superior of Port Sudan for the archetypal clip since the outbreak of the war.

After the attacks, Sudan severed its diplomatic ties with the UAE and declared it an “aggressor state”.

Since the warfare began much than 2 years ago, aggregate countries person been drawn in. It has efficaciously divided Sudan successful two, with SAF holding the centre, eastbound and north, including the superior Khartoum, portion the paramilitaries and their allies power astir each of Darfur and parts of the south.

The warring has killed tens of thousands and displaced 13 million, including 4 cardinal who fled abroad, triggering what the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Efforts by planetary mediators to halt the warring person truthful acold failed, with unit continuing to escalate crossed the occidental Darfur portion and the Kordofan portion successful the country’s south.