El Fasher, September 27 (Darfur24)

Mystery surrounds the alleged killing of a prominent military leader affiliated with the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) led by Minni Arko Minawi, in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State.

Military sources in El Fasher told Darfur24 that Major General Haroun, known as “Abu Tawila,” who served as the Minni Minawi Movement’s intelligence chief and the joint force’s prisons officer, allied with the army, was allegedly killed last weekend under unclear circumstances.

Preliminary information indicates that Abu Tawila was killed in a drone strike, likely carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which targeted his home in the First Class neighborhood. However, the incident remains shrouded in mystery, as neither the joint force nor Minawi’s movement has issued any official statement so far.

Other sources who spoke to Darfur24 on condition of anonymity suggested that the leader had been assassinated, without identifying the perpetrators.

The alleged killing comes just days after RSF fighters stormed the headquarters of the former United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), now serving as the joint force’s command center. The raid was carried out amid allegations of internal collusion that facilitated the incursion. The RSF later announced it had freed a number of its members held in the joint force’s prisons at the mission’s headquarters.