Breaking the Siege of Omdurman, 300 days of gruesome war in Sudan Suffer the People

It has now been 300+ days of gruesome, bloody war in Sudan. The Sudanese people are exhausted the men, women and children. The country still stands despite the urban warfare in Metropolitan Khartoum, in the once peaceful city of Wad Madani or Madani, further south in El Obeid and of course Darfur. While the conflict in Sudan has been forgotten and overshadowed by the war in Palestine and to a lesser extent in Ukraine, ordinary Sudanese are still hopeful that the war will end soon. Even with their homes, schools, family members lost, Sudanese civilians are doing their best to provide themselves and children with a sense of normalacy and peace of mind. The country has also experience over two weeks of electricity and internet blockade blamed on RSF. The North African country is currently home to the largest displacement of refugees and internally displaced people in the world. Most of the civilians are not fighting in the war and are trying to survive the best way they can and avoid the urban warfare altogether. Sudanese civilians in Khartoum and elsewhere are experiencing some of the horrors that the Palestinians are witnessing in Gaza such as the ongoing, relentless fear and anxiety caused by the RSF Siege of Omdurman that was finally broken by the Sudanese Army. In rural areas, IDPs are fearing a famine in IDP camps. Also keep in mind that half the country under the army is still relatively peaceful despite the fear of the war reaching other regions such as Gardaref. The states are Northern (Shamiliya), Red Sea, Kassala which is in far east Sudan, White Nile, etc. Since the RSf took over Wad Madani, the second largest city in Sudan and the capital of Al Jazirah state the breadbasket and agricultural heartland of Sudan, ordinary people have been anxiously searching for a way to calm their fears of the war taking its toll on their physicology and interrupting their normal way of life. Despite the grievances ordinary Sudanese have against the Army and government, the Rapid Support Force is not popular with most of the country. Again, the RSF have stolen from and harrassed people, rape, detained and tortured, wontonly killed and kidnapped men, women and even children throughout the grueling 300+ days of war. Not to mention destroyed neighborhoods in parts of Khartoum, where they have stationed themselves. As said before, the RSF soldiers are undiscliplaned and are used to recieving a carte blanche to harass civilians, intimidate, taunt, detain and attack them and than attempt to blame the government for the horrors of the war. The Army too has committed war crimes against civilians, bombing marketplaces to take out RSF positions, arresting and torturing civilians in Madani, etc. The country has also been experiencing a two week long communications disruptions blamed on the RSF. There have been attempts at secret talks between a few RSF and military generals led by Arab states.

The RSF had been hoping to rule the country early on in the war by gaining the trust of civilians under its territorial control especially in Darfur, parts of Kordofan region particulary, El Obeid and South Kordofan region. However, the RSF's brutality and cycle of collective punishment have turned everyone and their uncle away from them not only under their rule but even supporters who once thought that the RSF could be an alternative force to the current Sudanese government under Abdelfattah El Burhan. There were some army generals and soldiers from rural areas who defected from the army to RSF in the early days of the war, hoping that they would be part of a newly structured army. Hemedeti and his inner circle were certain they would become the new government to rule Sudan once the war ended. So much so that Hemedeti went on a charm offensive to garner international recognition and support for his future government ambitions by visiting the presidents and prime minsters of Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, etc. The embracing of Hemedeti by the various African leaders and the indirect support of the RSF in terms of military weapons by the United Arab Emirates through Chad serving as a border weapons drop for the RSF and its allied militia was condemned by El Burhan government. The army has switched to an offensive operations against the RSF after months of relying on defensive tactics. The Army has managed after 9 months to break the siege of Omdurman particulary old Omdurman area home to the historic, once peaceful, lively and famed Omdurman Souk, one of the largest souks and markets in Omdurman along with the Mohandiseen district that had been under siege since April 2023. Yet, the Sudanese people try to survive and create some form of normalcy. The neighborhood resistance committees have been working nonstop to provide emergency aid to the ordinary civilians in Khartoum and Omdurman.