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  • Chechen fighters departing Rostov for Ukraine – Russian media

    Chechen fighters departing Rostov for Ukraine – Russian media

    A report from Russia’s state-run Tass news agency, indicates that Chechen forces are withdrawing from Russia’s southern Rostov region and heading back to the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.

    The Chechen forces were urgently deployed to the Rostov region on Saturday, tasked with squashing a mutiny by Wagner mercenaries who had seized the local capital Rostov-on-Don.

    But a deal was reportedly reached late that day to resolve the crisis, and Wagner fighters left the city shortly afterwards.

    Tass quotes Apty Alaudinov, deputy commander of the Akhmat special unit, as saying his fighters are going back to the area around the Ukrainian city of Mariinka – the scene of fierce fighting in recent months.

  • Putin calls for unity

    Putin calls for unity

    A correspondent from Al Jazeera, Yulia Shapovalova, reporting from Moscow, has said that President Putin has urged unity and referred to the actions of the Wagner chief as a “betrayal.”

    “[Putin] says Russia is fighting for its future and all we need is unity now. He called what is going on a betrayal,” Shapovalova said.

    “The Ministry of Defence addressed the Wagner group fighters saying that they got involved in Prigozhin’s criminal adventure and participated in an armed rebellion,” she said.

    “The ministry guaranteed everyone’s safety if the fighters surrendered. And now we see reports by state media outlets, saying that some fighters returned to their initial positions as they had been asked by the army,” she added.

  • Sudanese embassy attacks described as “pure criminality”

    Sudanese embassy attacks described as “pure criminality”

    Attacks and looting of foreign diplomatic missions in Sudan continue, with Algeria being the latest country to protest.

    On Wednesday, the Algerian foreign ministry said its ambassador’s residence in the capital, Khartoum, was “stormed and ransacked” the day before.

    It said the attack constituted a violation of international law, and called on Sudanese authorities to prosecute those responsible.

    Zimbabwe on the same day condemned attacks on its embassy and on its ambassador’s residence in Khartoum, with the foreign ministry spokesperson accusing paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters of being responsible .

    “We have reports that most of the countries’ properties were also targeted. It’s sheer criminality, to take advantage of the war to loot properties of our diplomats and our embassy there,” Livit Mugejo said.

    On Tuesday, Mauritania said its embassy in Khartoum was similarly stormed and looted by armed men.

    Mauritanian media reported that at least three vehicles used by the ambassador and staff were stolen.

    The Sudanese army has repeatedly blamed the attacks on diplomatic missions on the RSF, which denies involvement.

  • Sudan extends tenuous ceasefire while combatants rampage in Darfur

    Sudan extends tenuous ceasefire while combatants rampage in Darfur

    Residents in a city in Sudan’s Darfur region reported seeing armed gunmen storm through the area on Thursday April 27, 2023 fighting and pillaging homes and businesses. Despite the prolongation of a tenuous cease-fire between Sudan’s two senior generals, whose power battle has claimed hundreds of lives, the carnage continued.

    The mayhem in the Darfur city of Genena pointed to how the rival generals’ fight for control in the capital, Khartoum, was spiraling into violence in other parts of Sudan.

    The two sides accepted a 72-hour extension of the truce late Thursday. The cease-fire has not stopped the fighting but created enough of a lull for tens of thousands of Sudanese to flee to safer areas and for foreign nations to evacuate thousands of their citizens by land, air and sea.

    The cease-fire has brought a significant easing of fighting in Khartoum and its neighboring city Omdurman for the first time since the military and a rival paramilitary force began clashing on April 15, turning residential neighborhoods into battlegrounds.

    Both the military, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, said that they accepted the extension of the truce. But explosions and heavy gunfire could be heard in at least one Khartoum neighborhood late Thursday.