Sudan’s RSF militia blocks highway in Khartoum for several hours
September 5, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – A group from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) affiliated with Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Saturday has blocked the main road linking Khartoum state to the Northern state for several hours and looted passengers’ property.
The same eyewitnesses said that a police patrol unit passed by the incident’s scene but was unable to confront the RSF, stressing the heavily armed militiamen continued to disrupt the traffic for several hours without intervention from any government authority.
They added that the angry RSF also attacked restaurants and shops near Al-Gaili area and embarked on looting their property and merchandise without being stopped by any party.
The Sudanese government didn’t comment on the incident.
RSF continued to block roads and loot passengers’ property whenever the government fails to pay their financial accruals.
Late last year, the militiamen also blocked the same road to protest against the delay in the payment of their monthly salaries.
The RSF, which is widely known as the Janjaweed militias, were originally mobilized by the Sudanese government to quell the insurgency that broke out in Sudan’s western region of Darfur in 2003.
The militia was reactivated and restructured again in August 2013 under the command of NISS to fight the alliance of rebel groups from Darfur region, South Kordofan and Blue Nile states following joint attacks in North and South Kordofan in April 2013.
(ST)