Sudanese Army Rejects Ceasefire, Battles RSF in Khartoum During Ramadan

The Sudanese army continues to reject peaceful solutions and insists on a military solution despite what SeneNews describes as a high humanitarian cost, extending fighting to new fronts during Ramadan.

SeneNews says the fiercest fighting pits the Sudanese army, backed by extremist Islamist militias, against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the heart of residential neighborhoods in Khartoum as the army attempts to retake the presidential palace.

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SeneNews adds that the army is using drones, artillery, armored vehicles and tanks, and that the video of a man being thrown alive from the top of the Hantoub Bridge over the Blue Nile, near Wad Madani, sparked a wave of political and humanitarian anger.

SeneNews reports that since the first negotiations in Jeddah under Saudi mediation, al-Burhan has systematically rejected ceasefire proposals and withdrew representatives several times to Port Sudan, while Catherine Russell, UNICEF’s Executive Director, told the Security Council that 16 million Sudanese children survive in critical conditions.

SeneNews also says former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok proposed a meeting between Burhan, Hemetti, and other military leaders to establish an unconditional ceasefire, but the RSF welcomed the initiative while the army rejected it.

In parallel with the stalled peace efforts described by SeneNews, Cairo News channel correspondent Abir Al-Ida reports that the Sudanese army has made progress in Blue Nile State, where it is besieging the Rapid Support Forces and the Popular Movement.

The Cairo News correspondent, as quoted by مبتدا, says Sudanese air force aircraft are targeting several RSF sites in El Fula, the capital of West Kordofan, and also notes the arrival of the first humanitarian convoys and food aid to Kadugli and Dilling in South Kordofan.

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صدى البلد adds that Muhammad Ibrahim, a correspondent for the Cairo News Channel, said the Sudanese army recaptured areas in the Blue Nile region, specifically the Jisan area, along with nearby areas controlled by the Rapid Support Forces, and the border area of al-Karmak.

Al-Jazeera Net frames the same period as “Sudan.. gains for the army amid stalled peace initiatives,” discussing on July 9, 2026 the implications of the army regaining control of the city of al-Karmuk and the dimensions of political initiatives to end the war.

Al-Jazeera Net’s episode features researcher Rashid al-Mu'tasim, writer and political analyst Mustafa Mohammed Ibrahim, and researcher Kofi Kwako, presented by Laila Al-Sheikhly.

SeneNews describes an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, saying 30 million Sudanese are in need of food aid and that about 15 million refugees and displaced people live in dire conditions, especially in neighboring countries.

SeneNews says Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan are bombarded daily during Ramadan, while areas under RSF control remain relatively spared and better supplied, and it reports that the army violated humanitarian truces by continuing air bombardments.

SeneNews also reports that the conflict has pushed armed factions of the Revolutionary Front to abandon their neutrality and join the RSF to impose peace and restore a democratic civilian regime, and it links that shift to the Founding Charter of Sudan signed in Nairobi last February.

SeneNews says the Sudanese Coalition Forces, led by Hafiz al-Nabi, now fight alongside the RSF on several fronts, and it quotes Al-Nabi saying, 'We will not hesitate to fight this army and its terrorist militias that have inflicted so much suffering on the'.

Al-Jazeera Net, in its Beyond the News episode, explores the “hypothesis of military decisive victory” versus proposed and feasible steps to move peace efforts in the near term, with the program presented on 9/7/2026.