The Sudan Army says it has regained a presidential palace from the rebels

The Sudan army said on Friday that it re -photographed the Republican Palace in Khartoum, which is the last highly guarded stronghold of the competing paramilitary forces in the capital, after nearly two years of fighting.

The seizure of the Republican Palace, surrounded by government ministries, represents a great symbolic victory for the Sudan army against the semi -military support forces (RSF). However, it is possible that the end of the war does not mean that RSF carries lands in the West Darfur region of Sudanese and other places.

The war has killed more than 28,000 people, forced millions to flee their homes and left some families taking grass in a desperate attempt to survive while famine sweeps parts of the country. Other estimates indicate the number of deaths.

Videos on social media showed their soldiers inside giving history on the twenty -first day of Ramadan, the month of the holy Muslim fasting, which corresponds to Friday. A Sudanese military officer wearing the captain of the captain issued the advertisement in the video and confirmed that the forces were inside the complex.

The palace seemed to be in ruin, with the steps of soldiers that crash the broken tiles below their shoes. Soldiers carrying offensive rifles and grenade launchers chanted rockets: “God is the greatest!”

Khaled, the Minister of Information of Sudan, said that the army had regained the palace in a post on the social platform x.

“Today the flag is raised, the palace returns and the journey continues until victory is complete,” he wrote.

RSF later issued a statement claiming that its forces “are still present in the area adjacent to the region, are fighting courageously.” According to the unmanned attack on the palace, it was launched by RSF forces and journalists with Sudanese government television.

Humanitarian aid that hinders months of fighting

The Republican Palace, which was completed along the Nile River, was the seat of power during the British colonialism of Sudan. Some of the first independent Sudanese flags were also witnessed throughout the country in 1956.

Its fall is the gain of another battlefield for the Sudan army. He has made fixed progress in recent months during the army commander, General Abdul Fattah Bourhan.

This means that the rival RSF, during the reign of General Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, was mostly expelled from the capital, Khartoum, after the Sudan war began in April 2023.

Intermittent shooting can be heard throughout the capital on Friday, although it was not clear whether it included the fighting or the celebration.

Dean. General Nabil Abdullah, a spokesman for the Sudanese army, described his forces as carrying the palace, the buildings of the surrounding ministry and the Arab market to the south of the palace. Khartoum International Airport has been kept, about 2.5 km southeast of the palace, by RSF since the beginning of the war.

Suleiman Sandal, a politician associated with RSF, acknowledged that the government took the palace and described it as part of the “climbing and descending” of history.

Late Thursday, RSF claimed that it had taken control of the Sudanese city of Malha, a strategic desert city in North Darfur near the borders of Chad and Libya. The Sudan Army admitted to fighting about its money, but it did not say it lost the city.

The money is located about 200 km north of the city of El Fasher, which is still being held by the Sudanese army despite the daily strikes by the surrounding RSF.

The head of the United Nations Children’s Agency said that the conflict created the largest and destructive humanitarian crisis in the world. On Friday, UNICEF criticized the looting of food aid aimed at going to children with malnutrition at Al -Bashir Hospital on the outskirts of Khartoum.

“Commercial supplies and humanitarian aid has been banned for more than three months due to the ongoing conflict along the main roads,” UNICEF warned. “The result is a severe lack of food, medicine and other necessities, as thousands of civilians are trapped in active fighting.”

Disorders since the overthrow of Bashir is overthrown

The Sudanese army has always targeted the palace and its lands, bombing and shooting at the complex. Sudan faced years of chaos and was not stable since the popular uprising was forced to remove the long authoritarian president Omar Al -Bashir in 2019.

Al -Bashaer faces charges in the International Criminal Court regarding a mass campaign in the early first decade of the twentieth century in the West Darfur region with Janjaweed, the RSF introduction. The law groups and the United Nations accuse RSF and the Arab militias allied to attack African ethnic groups again in this war.

A short -lived transfer to democracy after Bashir prolonged his path when he led Bourhan and Dajalo a military coup in 2021. The RSF and Sudan army began fighting each other in 2023.

Since the war began, the Sudanese army and RSF have faced allegations of human rights violations.

Before US President Joe Biden left his post, the Foreign Ministry announced that RSF committed genocide. The army and RSF denied violations.