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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said connected Monday (December 1, 2025) that it seized afloat power of Babanusa, a transport junction successful the country’s oil-producing south, though its rival, the Sudanese army, disputed the claim.
In a connection connected Monday (December 1), the RSF said its “liberation” of Babanusa successful West Kordofan authorities — the latest frontline successful the warfare successful Sudan — came arsenic it repelled “a astonishment attack” by the Sudanese service successful what it called “a wide usurpation of the humanitarian truce.”
On Tuesday (December 2), the service denied that the RSF had taken the full town, and accused its rivals of continuing attacks connected Babanusa contempt RSF commandant Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire.
In a statement, the service said RSF fighters had launched regular artillery and drone strikes connected the municipality and that troops had repelled a caller battle connected Monday (December 1).
Reuters was not instantly capable to verify the claims by the rival forces.
The service dismissed the ceasefire declaration arsenic a governmental maneuver aimed astatine masking RSF movements and alleged overseas support.
On November 19, U.S. President Donald Trump said helium would intervene to halt the conflict, which erupted from a powerfulness conflict successful April 2023.
The United States, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Saudi Arabia - known arsenic the Quad - earlier successful November projected a program for a three-month truce followed by bid talks. The RSF responded by saying it had accepted the plan, but soon aft attacked service territory with a barrage of drone strikes.
The RSF’s battle connected Babanusa builds connected the group’s momentum aft it took al-Fashir, the army’s past holdout successful Darfur, successful October.
