The conflicting parties in Sudan continue to publish disparate information and conflicting statements about military control of areas and bases and the surrender of some leaders and soldiers from each side and their joining the other side, which raises fears that both sides will use psychological warfare to prolong the conflict and destroy the country, according to Al-Hurra website.
In the first hours of the outbreak of the confrontations, the two sides exchanged accusations of being responsible for starting the shooting, and each party claimed control of the airport and other vital facilities in Khartoum and other cities, while the Rapid Support Forces announced several gains during the battles they fought on Saturday and Sunday, including extending full control over Marawi Airport and storming the house of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and it also published statements and video clips that it had taken full control of the Republican Palace and its surroundings, which the Sudanese army denied. The Sudanese army said that the operational situation so far in the capital includes limited clashes around the perimeter of the command. General and central Khartoum, indicating that the armed forces completely control all its headquarters, denying the validity of what is being circulated regarding the rapid support forces' seizure of the leadership, the guest house, or the presidential palace. , and liberating the heads of the military divisions in the states of Darfur and seizing their equipment and military vehicles, seizing more than 200 tanks, and shooting down three combat planes belonging to the Sudanese army, and also talked about the capture and joining of dozens of Sudanese army officers and soldiers. But the Sudanese army announced the restoration of control of Meroe Airport And the seizure of a large number of weapons, equipment and supplies belonging to the Rapid Support Forces, as well as its control of the leadership of the Kordofan sector, the Egyptian irrigation camp in al-Shajara, and the reception of a large number of Rapid Support soldiers who surrendered. Despite the interruption of the broadcast of the official Sudanese television, employees confirmed that the goal was to prevent the broadcast of any material Propaganda for the Rapid Support Forces after it entered the main building of Sudan Radio and Television in Omdurman and used the radio networks to broadcast materials in support of it. Psychological warfare includes the planned and organized use of propaganda and media approaches to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes and behavior of the opposing party in order to achieve the goals of national policy or military goals .
Sudanese experts said that the two sides tend to use psychological warfare in the absence of information and the lack of the possibility of transferring events from their sites, stressing that the disparate information and conflicting data are a form of misinformation. And reliable data with the aim of forcing leaders and military personnel to join the ranks of the other side and influence the course of the battle.
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