Dozens of people were killed and injured in military clashes between the Rapid Support Militia in Umm Rawaba.
## Military reinforcements for the Umm Rawaba militia with (20) combat vehicles for both factions.
## A harbinger of bloody clashes in Umm Rawaba between the forces of the militia of commander Ismail Hussein and the forces of the militia of the slain Hajj Banj.
## Sources: The parties within the militia are trying to obstruct the decisions of the militia leader, Ismail, so that the grazing of camels and cows can be expanded to the detriment of rural farmers and thwart the harvest season.
Sources in the city of Umm Rawaba revealed that the leader of the rapid support militia in Umm Rawaba (Ismail Hussein) was assassinated yesterday afternoon, Saturday, September 14, 2024, with a gunshot fired into his hand by the leader of the militia, Hajj Bing, after he declared his rebellion against Ismail and did not obey his orders and abandoned thefts of livestock, shops and weekly markets in the localities of Umm Rawaba and Umm Dam Haj and the villages of Al-Rahad Abu Dakna, and attacking the stalls and property of the defenseless citizens of Eastern Kordofan in general.
The sources revealed that the forces of Ismail Hussein's militia shot at the other leader of the militia, Hajj Bing, killing him instantly.
The same sources added that following these mutual hostilities between the field commanders of the militia in Umm Rawaba, bloody clashes took place between them, and dozens of people were killed and injured in the ranks of both sides.
The sources indicated that the situation in Umm Rawaba has become catastrophic and threatening, and a large-scale bloody explosion could occur between the different militia elements allied with each other according to their interests and ambitions in the region.
The sources explained that the dead man, Hajj Bing, belonged to the same ethnic tribe as the former leader of the Umm Rawaba militia (Qarn and his soldiers), who fled Umm Rawaba after Ismail's forces attacked it under the immediate military direction and instructions of the Kordofan sector commander (Muhammadin).
In the same context, other sources revealed that the head of the Umm Rawaba militia, Ismail Hussein, had already issued orders at the beginning of the autumn season on the need to make the agricultural campaign a success, by withdrawing all shepherds from agriculture and not attacking. Farmers in the villages. The sources said: His decision made agriculture successful, but the same situation returned. The sources said: There are parties within the militia who want to obstruct this decision as the harvest season approaches, to deprive the citizens of their resources. the harvest of their agriculture, so that the farms are vast pastures for camels and cows coming from South Kordofan to starve the citizens of Bariqi Umm Rawaba and Umm Dam Haj Ahmed and Al-Rahad Abu Dakna.
It is noteworthy that it was the forces of Hajj Banj, under his leadership, who killed and terrorized citizens and looted the Umm Samima market in the locality of Umm Dam Haj Ahmed during the second week of September this year (2024).
Other sources revealed that this morning, Sunday, September 15, 2024, military reinforcements of (20) combat vehicles arrived to separate the militia forces in Umm Rawaba so that the clashes do not happen again.
