The Sudanese army said on Friday that it killed Ali Yaqoub Jibril, commander of the Central Darfur sector of the Rapid Support Forces, during a battle in El Fasher.
The Sudanese army said in a statement that it thwarted a Rapid Support Forces attack on the city of El Fasher, noting that the Rapid Support suffered heavy personnel losses.
The statement said that the Rapid Support launched an attack on El Fasher this morning, and that the armed forces and the joint force thwarted “the attack and inflicted on them heavy losses represented by hundreds of deaths and injuries, including their commander, Ali Yaqoub, who was killed in the failed attack attempt.”
The force, which consists of armed movements that have left neutrality and are fighting alongside the army, stated in a statement that it had killed more than 1,000 of what it described as “mercenaries from the Janjaweed” and other Rapid Support Forces, led by Ali Yaqoub, the leader and supervisor of the “massacres” in El Fasher.
The statement said that the joint force destroyed more than 60 military vehicles, took control of 40 other four-wheel drive military vehicles, 7 armored vehicles, and 3 buses for supplies and ammunition, and captured more than 43 Rapid Support personnel, indicating that inventory operations are still ongoing.
The statement added that with the killing of Ali Yaqoub, the legend of the Rapid Support militia ended forever and the end of its forces began, "which committed all kinds of brutal crimes against our people in all of Sudan, especially in Darfur."
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