“There are many who do not want to see security for our citizens, and who are deliberately sabotaging national institutions,” Minawi wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
Fighting between the army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and paramilitary forces led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has been ongoing for six weeks. The armed struggle for power has mainly taken place in the capital Khartoum and in the Darfur province in western Sudan.
Darfur has long been the scene of internal fighting, and during the war and genocide that began in 2003 in the province, up to 400,000 people died.
Part of the war was the then Janjawid militia, which waged war against ethnic groups in Darfur. The Janjawid militia with General Dagalo was later partially transformed into the current fighting party RSF.
Minawi, who was on the opposing side in the Darfur conflict, thereby raises the tone against the former enemy.
“I call on our honorable citizens, the people of Darfur, young and old, to take up arms to defend our property,” Minawi wrote.