El Fasher, January 10( Darfur 24)
Sources within the Darfur Armed Struggle Movement revealed to Darfur24 on Monday, that the armed struggle movements led by Al-Hadi Idris, President of the Transitional Council, Al-Tahir Hajar, Chairman of the Sudan Liberation Movement, and Lieutenant General Juma Haqar, Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan Liberation Movement Minawi, plan to remove the Sudanese army from the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.
Early this week, local media reports indicated the sudden arrival of the dismissed members of the Sovereignty Council, Dr. Al-Hadi Idris and Al-Taher Hajar, and the recently dismissed governor of North Darfur State, Nimr Abdel Rahman, accompanied by the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan Liberation Army Movement, Minni Minawi, Lieutenant General Juma Haggar, to North Darfur from the Ethiopian capital, Idris Ababa, via airport. Umm Jemina, Chadian.
Sources close to the group said
Darfur 24 reported that the aforementioned leaders were planning to remove the Sudanese army from the city of El Fasher, whether by peace or war, before revealing that the group had commissioned Lieutenant General Juma Haggar to liaise with the leadership of the Sixth Infantry Division for the purpose of negotiating to hand over leadership to the joint force of armed struggle movements in the city of El Fasher.
The same sources stated that the second scenario of the group is to strike the leadership and take it over by force if the commander of the Sudanese army refuseed to hand it over through negotiations – in addition to revealing a third scenario, which is during the members of the Command and Control Committee of the Joint Force of Armed Struggle Movements to leave the city so that the Rapid Support Forces can control the city of El Fasher, but the same sources ruled out the approval of some leaders within the joint force of armed struggle movements to leave El Fasher.
In this context, the media official of the joint force of armed struggle movements, Major Ahmed Hussein Mustafa, renewed the joint force’s commitment to protecting the city of El Fasher.
He said in a statement to Darfur 24 regarding these reports that protecting residents of El Fasher is a red line.
He added that the responsibility of the joint force of armed struggle movements is not alone in El Fasher, but rather this force seeks to protect citizens in the rest of the cities of the Darfur region.
The governor of the Darfur region, Minni Arko Minawi, revealed on × platforms the intention of groups of civil forces and armed struggle movements to dismantle his movement in the event that it does not submit to joining the coalition of civil forces that advance the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Movement-Minawi announced their alignment with the armed forces and their departure from the neutrality zone following the outbreak of war in Sudan.
Last December, the city of El Fasher witnessed a state of tension following the announcement by the Rapid Support Forces of planning an attack on the civilian army leadership, before they retreated after a meeting was held between the second commander of the Rapid Support, Abdul Rahim Dagalo, and the leaders of the joint forces of the armed struggle movements.