ANKARA: Sudan’s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan embarked on an official trip to Turkey on Wednesday on his fifth foreign tour since late August.
As per Turkish media reports, the General will hold a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on bilateral ties and matters of mutual concern.
Sudan’s Army Chief Embarks on Official Trip to Turkey
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is accompanied by a high-level delegation including Foreign Minister Ali al-Sadiq, intelligence head Lt. Gen. Ahmed Ibrahim Mufaddal and DG Defense Industries Corporation Lt. Gen. Mirghani Idris Suleiman.
The trip is the fifth foreign visit by al-Burhan since fighting erupted between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary forces in April. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had early visited South Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea and Qatar.
Since the beginning of the conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF, thousands of people have been killed and over seven million displaced, particularly in Darfur state and Khartoum, the UN said.
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Earlier, at least 40 people, all civilians, were killed in an air strike in the western Darfur region of war-torn Sudan on Wednesday, AFP reported, citing a medical source.
“At least 40 civilians have been killed in an air raid that targeted two markets and several neighbourhoods of the city,” the medical source told AFP from a hospital in Nyala area, the capital of South Darfur region.
Earlier, witnesses in the area reported air strikes targeting two markets and causing civilian casualties in the second-biggest city of Sudan, where fighting escalated last month.
The vast region of Darfur — home to a quarter of the population of Sudan — has witnessed some of the worst fighting in the war between Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by Burhan’s former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, and the regular army.
