Nearly two years after surrendering the city to rival paramilitaries, the Sudanese army declared that it had regained complete control of Khartoum, after a week-long blitz in which it retook the presidential palace, the airport, and other key locations.
In a statement released late Thursday, army spokesman Nabil Abdullah used the government’s term for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who have been fighting the military since April 2023, to say, “Our forces today have… forcibly cleansed the last pockets of the remnants of the Daglo terrorist militia in Khartoum locality.
Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan pronounced the capital “free” from the RSF on Wednesday while standing inside the recently regained presidential palace. RSF fighters have reportedly been fleeing throughout Khartoum since its soldiers overran the presidential palace last week, according to activists and witnesses.
RSF troops were escaping across the Jebel Awliya bridge, which was their last means of departure from the greater Khartoum area, an army source told AFP on Wednesday. However, the RSF said that there would be “no retreat and no surrender” and claimed that its men had only moved. In its first official statement since the army’s onslaught in Khartoum this week, it declared, “We will deliver crushing defeats to the enemy on all fronts.
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