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Khartoum’s fearful residents hunker down amid fierce street fighting

Khartoum’s fearful residents hunker down amid fierce street fighting

KHALID ABDELAZIZ and NAFISA ELTAHIR RESIDENTS in an affluent district of Khartoum feared there would be trouble when they found their new neighbour was a commander from a paramilitary force that protesters blamed for cracking down on them in the past. Those concerns proved well-founded this week when people were forced to hunker down in their homes as gunfire, shelling and airstrikes raged across the city in a fierce fight for power between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). "We knew a day like this would come," said Motasim, who lives a few buildings from Abdelrahim Dagalo, deputy leader of the RSF, the…
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