Sudan's regular army has reportedly recaptured the presidential palace seized by paramilitary forces two years ago.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have taken
control of the presidential palace in Khartoum, the local broadcaster in Sudan
and international news agencies reported on Friday.
Videos and photos posted on social media showed
soldiers inside the devastated palace.
The Reuters news agency reported that
intermittent gunfire could be heard in some central areas of the capital,
citing witnesses.
What did Sudanese authorities say?
Sudan's Information Minister Khaled al-Aiser,
said the military had retaken the palace in a post on the social media platform
X.
He wrote in a post, "Today the flag is
raised, the palace is back, and the journey continues until victory is
complete." "Our forces completely destroyed the enemy's fighters and
equipment and seized large quantities of equipment and weapons," army
spokesman Nabil Abdallah said in a statement broadcast on state television.
On Thursday it was reported that SAF troops had
advanced within a few hundred meters of the palace—seized by the paramilitary
Rapid Support Forces (RSF) almost two years ago.
Withdrawing the RSF column reportedly destroyed
The French AFP news agency reported that SAF
forces "destroyed an RSF convoy of 30 vehicles attempting to withdraw
southward," in a report citing a military source.
The military has been making steady progress
against RSF forces and says it has wrested back control of the capital,
Khartoum.
Abdel Fattah Burhan, the head of the army, has
been fighting his former deputy, the paramilitary RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan
Dagalo, since April 2023. Fighting has killed tens of thousands and displaced
millions more.
The conflict in Sudan has resulted in the deaths
of at least 20,000 individuals thus far, according to the World Health
Organization, though other estimates place the figure as high as 150,000. Sudan
is the world's largest displacement crisis, with at least 10 million people
forced from their homes, according to UN figures. In August, a UN-backed
assessment declared a famine in the Zamzam refugee camp in the western Darfur
region, which is largely controlled by the RSF paramilitary.
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