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Sudan's army chief rules out reconciliation with paramilitary forces

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STORY: Sudan's army chief rules out reconciliation with paramilitary forces
SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 5, 2024
DATELINE: Jan. 6, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:45
LOCATION: Khartoum
CATEGORY: MILITARY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of a military base
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ABDEL FATTAH AL-BURHAN, Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council and General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)
3. various of Al-Burhan among a crowd
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): ABDEL FATTAH AL-BURHAN, Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council and General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)
5. various of Al-Burhan among soldiers

STORYLINE:

Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council and General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Friday said the army would continue fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
   
"There is no reconciliation or agreement with the rebels. We will fight until the militia ends, or we end," Al-Burhan said in a video speech posted by the sovereign council on its Telegram account on Friday.
   
SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ABDEL FATTAH AL-BURHAN, Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council and General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)
"Our battle, the battle of dignity, continues. It is a continued battle to restore every site in Sudan that was desecrated by these traitors."
   
He, meanwhile, criticized the recently signed declaration between the RSF and Coordination of Civilian Democratic Forces (Taqaddum), a Sudanese political coalition led by former Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.
   
SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): ABDEL FATTAH AL-BURHAN, Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council and General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)
"I say to our brothers, the politicians who signed an agreement with the RSF, that you are wrong. You have signed with a rebel outlawed militia which the world classifies as terrorist forces that have committed crimes against humanity. For us, this agreement is unacceptable and we have nothing to do with it."
   
On Jan. 2, the RSF and the Taqaddum signed the "Addis Ababa Declaration" to stop the war in Sudan.
   
According to the declaration, the RSF is prepared to immediately and unconditionally cease hostilities through direct talks with the Sudanese army.
   
The two parties to the declaration also stressed that sustainable peace in Sudan must be based on ending the multiplicity of armies and forming one professional army.
   
Sudan has been witnessing deadly clashes between the SAF and the RSF since April 15, 2023. More than 12,000 people have been killed in the fighting, according to a statement by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in December last year.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Khartoum.
(XHTV)

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