Khartoum: Rhino – Renewed battles, Friday, in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, where violent clashes took place between the army and the Rapid Support Forces in the Halvaya area, north of Khartoum Bahri.

Al-Hurra news website quoted field sources as saying that columns of smoke rose in the sky of Khartoum Bahri, with the sounds of heavy weapons and the flying of the army’s warplanes.

Sources close to the Rapid Support Forces told Rhino that they repelled an attack by the Sudanese army on the areas under their control north of the city, and managed during the battles to destroy and burn three tanks and two cannons of the army in the Halvaya axis, while the army forces and elements of the Baraa bin Malik Brigades of the Islamic Movement withdrew to the city of Omdurman.