The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has refuted claims by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that it has seized control of the West Kordofan town of Babnusa.
The Sudan military in a statement said it has repelled an attack by the group.
GLOBAL TRACKER reports that the RSF had claimed the previous day to have taken full control of Babnusa, a key city in the vast central Sudanese region of West Kordofan.
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Babnusa serves as a gateway to the Darfur region, over which the paramilitary force took full control last month, and the whole of western Sudan.
Videos released by the RSF on Monday showed its fighters taking an army base in Babnusa after a weeks-long siege.
However, the army maintained it was still fighting in the city.
The RSF “launched a new attack on the city, which our forces decisively repelled”, the official spokesperson for the Armed Forces said in a statement.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent Hiba Morgan reported from Khartoum that “the army says that the battles are ongoing, that they have their fighters still inside the city,” “But what we can definitely confirm is that when it comes to the army headquarters itself, the RSF has taken control of that.”
Also, Al Jazeera Arabic reported fierce clashes were also taking place throughout other parts of Kordofan, including in the southern area of Abbasiya Tagali.