By XINHUA More by this AuthorViolent clashes erupted on Friday between the Sudanese Armed Forces (Saf) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur State in western Sudan, the independent Sudan Tribune news portal reported. An eyewitness from El Fasher told Xinhua that fierce ground clashes took place on Friday between the Saf and the RSF in the central neighborhoods of the city. AdvertisementMinnawi accused the RSF of following a scorched-earth policy in El Fasher by indiscriminately and deliberately bombing citizens' sites and burning institutions. Meanwhile, El Basha Tabig, advisor to the RSF Commander, accused the Sudanese army and its allied groups of attacking the RSF positions east of El Fasher. Last week, the United Nations warned that some 800,000 people in El Fasher were in "extreme and immediate danger" as worsening violence advances and threatens to "unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur.
