International monitoring has pushed Khalifa Haftar into changing the routes his forces use to supply Sudans Rapid Support Forces (RSF), local sources close to the eastern Libyan commander have told Middle East Eye. 

Politicians, analysts and intelligence sources from southern Libya confirmed to MEE that Haftar is involved in the supply of arms and fuel to the paramilitary group, which has been at war with the Sudanese army since 15 April. 

While pictures of shipments of weapons being transported from military bases in eastern Libya were published early in the conflict, the sources also revealed the names of airbases they said are now being used as launching points for cargo. 

In an exclusive interview, Saad Bou Shradah, a member of Libyas state council from the countrys south, told MEE that Haftars Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) is flying military supplies from its territory to the Central African Republic, from where they are driven by car across the border into the Sudanese interior.

Sources inside Haftar's operation, who spoke anonymously because they are not authorised to talk to the media, confirmed this. Opposition sources in CAR have previously told MEE that the government there is working with the Wagner Group to supply the RSF. 

A Sudanese army air strike has killed at least 22 people in western Omdurman, the Khartoum state health ministry said on Saturday, as the country's war entered its 85th day.

Khartoum's twin city, Omdurman has in recent days been the focus of fighting between the army and its enemy, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The western part of the city is a key supply route for the RSF, which brings in reinforcements to the capital's metropolitan area from its power base in Darfur, in western Sudan. 

While the federal health ministry has said that hundreds of people have died in Sudan's conflict, which began on 15 April, the real figure is believed to be far higher. 

In Khartoum and its sister cities, Omdurman and Bahri, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have rained down air and artillery strikes, while the RSF has dominated on the ground, moving to control large parts of the city. 

Sudanese and western military sources have told Middle East Eye that the RSF at present holds the upper hand in the war, with the SAF struggling in street battles and unable to make its domination of the air coun...

It was Eid al-Fitr, around 3pm, when he heard someone say: The assassination team has arrived.

Yaslam Altayeb, a 49-year-old Sudanese businessman with Dutch and British citizenship, was being held by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in a Khartoum military base.

Alongside him was someone he knew only as "the doctor", a reserved man who had told him he had a PhD in finance and worked for a prominent bank, but nothing else. Whenever Altayeb tried to speak to him, he told him to shut up.

Hearing the sound of the door being unlocked, Altayeb steeled himself for the worst. "It's done," he recalls thinking.

Four men came inside. "They were really scary people. They were wearing turbans, and they carried AK47s. There were pistols on their hips, and two knives."

One of them turned to...

Children as young as 12 are being raped and sexually assaulted by fighters in Sudan in "alarming numbers," according to a new report released by Save the Children.

The NGO said on Friday at least 88 cases of rape have been verified since the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) started on 15 April, with women and girls, in particular, facing assault and exploitation. 

Officials expect there have been as high as 4,400 cases of sexual violence.

Examples of the abuses faced by children and teenagers include rape, which has caused pregnancies in some cases, as well as kidnappings. 

Sexual violence continues to be used as a tool to terrorise women and children in Sudan. We know that the official numbers are only the tip of the iceberg," Arif Noor, Save the Children's director in Sudan, said in a statement.