During the past twenty-four hours, a video clip has been circulated on news websites and social media pages, whose publishers claim that it depicts clashes in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

The video depicts military vehicles in a street at night, and gunfire is heard. He wrote in the accompanying commentary, “Clashes with heavy weapons in the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.”

However, the allegation is wrong, as the video was taken two months ago, as if it was of a drug raid in Libya.

The video also came in another post, accompanied by the title: “The Sudanese Special Forces continue to demolish the remaining pockets of the terrorist militia in the capital, Khartoum.”

The spread of this video comes at a time when battles with heavy weapons continue in Khartoum for the third day between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Hamidti, which led to the killing of regarding a hundred civilians, until Monday.

Since Saturday, the capital has drowned in the smell of gunpowder, and columns of thick black smoke rise from it. Residents also stayed in their homes, amid power and water cuts from homes.

Tension had been lurking for weeks between al-Burhan and Hamidti, who together removed civilians from power during a coup in October 2021, before this escalation of political disputes turned into Saturday confrontations.

Fighters in military uniforms, heavily armed, are deployed in the streets of the capital, which are also filled with military vehicles.

Old video

However, the widely circulated video has nothing to do with these developments.

A search for it, following dividing it into static scenes, showed that it was published regarding two months ago on February 13, 2023, as a clash with drug and alcohol gangs in the Wahishi region in Libya.

At that time, the armed forces published a video of the details of this operation, according to “Agence France Presse”.