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The Popular Resistance (Arabic: المقاومة الشعبية Al-Muqawamat ash-Sha'abiyah), also known as the Popular mobilisation (Arabic: الاستنفار الشعبي), is a conglomerate of armed factions in Sudan that was formed in response to the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The Sudanese resistance committees (Arabic: لجان المقاومة) or neighbourhood committees are informal, grassroots neighbourhood networks of Sudanese residents that started organising civil disobedience campaigns against the government of Omar al-Bashir in 2013 [1] and became a major organised network playing a key role during the Sudanese Revolution.
Popular Resistance of Sudan – a group, including the Al-Bara' ibn Malik Battalion, that fights alongside the Sudanese army; Popular Resistance of Ukraine – Ukrainian underground partisan organization; National Popular Resistance Front – a wide coalition of Honduran grassroots organisations and political parties and movements
The group has taken up arms alongside the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) to fight against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as part of the Popular Resistance of Sudan. [2] [5] [16] Despite their alignment with the SAF, members of Angry Without Borders have maintained that their primary goal is to protect civilians and resist the RSF's aggression ...
The 2019–2022 Sudanese protests were street protests in Sudan which began in mid-September 2019, during Sudan's transition to democracy, about issues which included the nomination of a new Chief Justice and Attorney General, [6] the killing of civilians by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), [1] [2] the toxic effects of cyanide and mercury from gold mining in Northern state and South Kordofan ...
On 17 November, mass protests organised by the Sudanese resistance committees took place across Sudan, including Khartoum, Wad Madani, Atbara, El Fasher and Port Sudan. Fifteen protestors were shot dead by the security forces, who raided hospitals and fired tear gas to block medical treatment of wounded survivors. [ 18 ]
Sudan's Foreign Ministry stated that RSF soldiers “indiscriminately opened fire on the village’s unarmed residents” as a result of facing resistance from villagers against their efforts to "abduct and sexually assault" several women civilians and girls.
Sudan Tribune stated that the SAF retook the villages of Wad Faqisha and Hafira in Gezira State from the RSF without resistance. [31] The SAF has also claimed to have retaken the town of Al-Qalaa Al-Bayda, 30 kilometers east of Wad Madani, from the RSF. [32] The Sudanese Armed Forces retook control of Wad Madani on 11 January 2025. [8]