Abdel-Fattah Burhan escaped harm during an attack that killed five in eastern Sudan. This attack came ahead of peace talks between the army and the rebel RSF faction in Switzerland.Abdel-Fattah Burhan, survived a drone attack Wednesday on an army graduation ceremony he was attending in the country’s east, the military said. The attack that killed five people was the latest twist in the conflict Sudan has been going through since a popular uprising removed its veteran leader Omar al-Bashir in 2019. Sudan has been locked in a civil conflict for over a year, with the army fighting a powerful paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The group was once overseen by the Sudanese government, but broke away due to a rift between Burhan and RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.
Millions of Sudanese civilians have been displaced and tens of thousands killed as a result of the conflict