Sudan’s army said Saturday that after the re -occupation of the presidential palace, the army chief Abdul Fattah Al -Bourne caught several important buildings with paramilitary control in the central Khartoum, after promising “full independence”.
Army spokesman Nabil Abdullah said the army was “continuing pressure” on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the middle of the city, which included a list of buildings, including the Central Bank, State Intelligence Headquarters and the Sudan National Museum.
Sudan’s national institutions in the city center were subjected to and robbed by paramilitary in the first weeks after the fighting broke out in April 2023.
A source of RSF confirmed AFP That his fighters “withdraw from some places in Central Khartoum”, but added, “The war has not yet been decided”.
He said on condition of anonymity, “Our forces are now fighting a great war”. RSF fighters are deployed inside the airport’s rest, which has suffered a lot of damage over nearly two years of fighting.
On Friday, the army and its affiliated armed groups recovered the presidential palace from the RSF, which responded with a drone strike, killing three journalists and several army personnel.
According to military sources, paramilitary forces used the palace to keep their elite forces and storage ammunition.
The war in the Khartoum government and the financial district can strengthen the army’s grip in the capital. It will provide an important benefit in the country’s devastating two -year war, but it is unlikely to end.
With its advance on Friday, the army has taken the whole south of the Blue Nile, which separates the capital from the Khartoum North. It has also achieved the main route from the center of the city center across the white Nile to the twin city of Omdurman.
Since April 2023, the army, led by Army Chief Abdul Fattah Al -Bourn, has confronted the RSF under the leadership of its former deputy, Mohammad Hamdan Diglu.
After a year and a half of humiliating defeats, the tide was changing at the end of the last year, when it resulted in the confrontation of the Army through Central Sudan.
‘Move towards freedom’
Army chief Burhan said his forces were “moving forward with stable measures towards full independence of Sudan,” said Army chief Burhan said. “The war is not over, we will continue,” he said happily and strengthened in the city of Al -Kamilin, 100 km southwest of Khartoum, southwest of Khartoum.
Army sources said that residential banks of the palace and an area west of the business headquarters were withdrawn in buildings in paramilitary forces in Algran, Army sources. The paramilitary troops posted snakers in the district’s high, ignoring both the ministries of Omdarmin and Central Khartoum.
“Our forces in Central Khartoum are putting pressure on the Digo Thugs … [who] “Our forces are trying to escape,” said Army spokesman Nabil Abdullah.
He said the army had “eliminated hundreds of militia members who tried to escape the pocket in Central Khartoum”.
Analysts warned that even if the army re -occupied the entire Greater Khartoum, it would not end Sudan’s brutal battle, which killed tens of thousands of people and destroyed more than 12 million.
The third largest country in Africa is effectively divided into two parts, the army has captured the East and the North, while almost all of RSF Darfur controls all the Western region and parts of the south.
