RSF and SPLM-N Attack Army’s Positions in Blue Nile, Capture Strategic Area

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) launched an attack on Tuesday on three sites in the Blue Nile region of southeastern Sudan, seizing the strategic town of Deim Mansour. … On January 26, the army regained positions in Bau County in Blue Nile from a coalition comprising the RSF and SPLM-N, one day after the coalition had seized them using forces that advanced from within South Sudan. The SPLM-N, led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu, announced it had taken control of the strategic town of Deim Mansour, as well as Bashir Nuqu and Khor al-Budi in Kurmuk County, following battles with the Sudanese army. Deim Mansour is considered a critical strategic town whose fall is feared to clear the way for the army to lose the city of Kurmuk. … Kurmuk Commissioner Abdel Ati Mohamed al-Faki said on Tuesday that the RSF and SPLM-N attacked army garrisons in the county, including Deim Mansour and Khor al-Budi, and that the army was engaging them. Sudan Tribune