Shafaq News/ A massive fire brokeout at Sudan’s largest oil refinery, Al-Jaili, amid ongoing clashes nearby, sendingthick, black polluted smoke billowing over the capital, Khartoum.
The attacks near the refinery,co-owned by the Sudanese government and China’s state-run National PetroleumCorporation, represent the “latest disaster” in the war between the RapidSupport Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, with both sides accusing each otherof causing the fire, according to the Associated Press.
The Al-Jaili refinery, situatedabout 60 kilometers north of Khartoum, has previously been targeted in attacks.The RSF has claimed control of the facility since April 2023 and has beenguarding it since then. Local Sudanese media reported that the RSF plantedlandmines around the refinery to hinder any advances.
However, the facility, with acapacity to refine 100,000 barrels of oil per day, remained mostly intact untillast Thursday, when clashes in the surrounding area sparked a fire.
Satellite data from NASA, whichmonitors wildfires globally, showed that an attack on the oil field lastThursday sparked fires throughout the entire complex.
Notably, Sudan has faced instabilitysince the popular uprising that led to the removal of longtime president Omaral-Bashir in 2019. A brief transition to democracy was interrupted when armychief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo of the RSFteamed up to lead a military coup in October 2021.
The RSF and Sudan’s military engagedin conflict starting in April 2023. The fighting has claimed over 28,000 lives,displaced millions, and left some families resorting to eating grass as faminespreads across parts of the country.
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