Chad condemns Sudan’s airport threat as ‘declaration of war’

BBC News, Port Sudan

Chad condemned a major threat to the Sudanese general to target its airports, describing it as a “declaration of war.”
The Foreign Ministry said it would respond according to international law if it is “a square meter of Chadian lands threatened.”
This warning follows comments from Lieutenant -Jin Yasser Eata, deputy commander of the Sudan Army, who said that the United Arab Emirates was using Chad airports to provide weapons to the semi -military rapid support forces (RSF).
The Sudanese army has repeatedly accused the United Arab Emirates of supporting its rival, RSF, throughout the two -year brutal war, which created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
United Nations experts described accusations of weapons smuggling the United Arab Emirates to RSF via Chad as “credible”, but the firearm denied this.
The comments of Lieutenant Ata followed Sudan’s recent decision to transfer the UAE to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding its alleged support from RSF.
He said that the army was “legitimate targets” that the army was “legitimate targets” that the army was “on its way to a ceremony held by an army officer who was killed in a drone by RSF on Friday on his way to a ceremony regarding an army officer who was killed in a drone on Friday while the army was restoring the presidential palace” legitimate targets. ”
“The retaliatory action” will be taken against the UAE, South Sudan and President of Chad Mawham Deby.
South Sudan was also accused of supporting RSF. He denied supporting any side in the conflict.
“We know what we are saying, and our words are not a joke at all, nor do they speak lightly,” Lieutenant Jin Ata warned.
BBC contacted the Sudan authorities to clarify his comments.
It reflects the deep frustration of the Sudanese army not only the UAE, but the neighboring countries, accused of allowing their lands to be used as RSF supply methods.
In December, the Sudanese Ministry of Defense said that the weapons that were provided included drones that car carrying guided missiles.
Chad put herself as neutral, but the war of words reveals the increasing regional instability caused by the civil war of Sudan, which is held by the involvement of external players.
“General Al -Wata should stop pronouncing foolish threats and focusing on the urgent need for an immediate stopping in hostilities and engaging without delay in a constructive dialogue in favor of a peaceful and durable solution,” Chad said, while highlighting that it hosts hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees, most of them from the vicinity of the renewal, which is an integral matter of RSF.
The harsh stock exchange came at a time when RSF claimed that he had seized the Malala in Darfur, a city located on a vital commercial road from Chad and Libya.
It also serves as a major crossroads that led to the removal of Al -Farid about 200 km (125 miles), the recent state capital in Darfur is still in the hands of the army, which RSF besieged nearly a year ago.

The group said that it “surrounds the enemy … leaving behind 380 dead”, after months of fighting with an alliance of armed groups allied with the Sudanese army known as the joint forces.
She claimed that she “liberated” the area and announced that she “remained steadfast in [its] Determination to end this war in favor of the Sudanese people. “
The British Broadcasting Corporation spoke to two members of the local activists groups, known as the emergency response rooms, which were the coordination of the city’s humanitarian relief.
We do not use their names to protect them and their families.
They say that after controlling the RSF in the city, the roads were closed outside to prevent people from escaping and imposed insurance.
Institutions do not work, as Ahmed (and not his real name).
The hospital does not work, the main market has been looted, and no one has got water, and it is usually delivered from the storage tanks by the sellers.
The estimates are so far from the dead in RSF Advance from 35 to 48.
This is because the group has cut off the Internet in the salt.
He was not able to contact his mother and 11 brothers and sisters to find out what happened to them

Ismail (and not his real name) managed to escape with his family during the night, to the village of Kenana, where many people displaced from the urgent are struggling to get food and water.
Others resorted to the valleys between Bedouin goats and the sponsors.
Ismail said that many of the people who were killed were merchants on the market, because they belonged to the Zagawa community, the ethnic base of the joint forces.
RSF also burned the homes of those who believed they had an army or government.
Ahmed said that at least traditional community leaders were killed.
Analysts say RSF appears to be determined to unify its grip on the Darfur stronghold after months of the army’s gains in central Sudan, the capital, Khartoum.
Group leader, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, pledged to fight in Khartoum despite the great progress of the army last week.
The semi -military fighters are deployed in parts of the city center, including the airport, as well as the south and west in the capital.
But the army says it was steadily seizing the infrastructure and major buildings, including the Central Bank and the government intelligence headquarters, as it combined control of the area.
The full restoration of the rest of the capital would represent a pivotal point in the war, giving the Sudanese army a strategic advantage in other battlefields in the country.
The military ministries and the government transferred its headquarters to Port Sudan after RSF exceeded the Early of the war
But many observers believe that there is a risk of actual division, as the two warring parties and their supporters in their spheres of influence are established.
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2025-03-24 14:54:00