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Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Thursday said the army would not sign any peace agreement that does not include the withdrawal of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from public facilities and citizens’ homes.
Al-Burhan, also the chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council, made the remarks when addressing officers and soldiers in eastern Sudan’s Red Sea State, the sovereign council said in a statement.
“We will not sign a peace agreement that embodies humiliation for the armed forces and the Sudanese people,” Al-Burhan said.
“Any agreement must include a ceasefire and withdrawal of the rebels from public facilities, hospitals, and citizens’ homes,” he noted, adding that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) would keep fighting to defeat the “rebel militia.”
Sudan has been witnessing deadly clashes between the SAF and the RSF since April 15. More than 12,000 people have been killed in the fighting, according to a statement by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in early December
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NPR News: 12-22-2023 1AM EST
The Czech Republic has declared Saturday a national day of mourning after a gunman killed 14 people and injured 25 at a university in Prague, the BBC reports.
President Petr Pavel expressed his “great sadness” and “helpless anger at the totally unnecessary” loss of life.
The gunman, who police said had been “eliminated”, is believed to have also killed his father and may be linked to the deaths of two people last week.
It is one of the worst mass shootings in recent European history.
The shooting began at around 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Thursday at the Faculty of Arts building of Charles University in the centre of the Czech capital.
The gunman opened fire in the corridors and classrooms of the building, apparently killing at random, while staff and students used furniture to barricade themselves into rooms.
Dramatic footage shared on social media shows people jumping to safety from an exterior ledge several stories up. Gunshots can also be heard.
Police say the gunman was a 24-year-old student at the university and had no prior criminal record, though they add that a “huge arsenal of weapons and ammunition” was found.
Before the shooting, police had received a report that the suspect was believed to be heading to Prague from a nearby town with the intention of killing himself.
A short time later, the man’s father was discovered dead.
Police evacuated a different university building where the gunman had been expected to attend a lecture, but a short time later were called to the faculty’s main building nearby.
