Sudan army takes full control of Khartoum amid RSF defiance
The Sudanese army has claimed to have pushed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters out of the capital Khartoum after nearly two years of fighting over the city, Al Jazeera has reported.
“Our forces today have … forcibly cleansed the last pockets of the remnants of the Daglo terrorist militia in Khartoum locality,” military spokesman Nabil Abdullah said in a statement on Thursday, using the government’s term for the RSF, led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, which have been battling the military since April 2023.
According to Al Jazeera, there were still areas in Khartoum where RSF fighters were “holed up” in residential buildings, unable to leave because they were afraid of being captured.
However, the RSF pledged there would be “no retreat and no surrender”, saying its forces had only repositioned.
“We will deliver crushing defeats to the enemy on all fronts,” RSF said in its first statement since the army’s offensive began in Khartoum this week.
Sudan’s army last week recaptured the presidential palace in Khartoum. A day later, it went on to seize control of the main headquarters of the country’s central bank from the RSF.
Hours after the military walked into the presidential palace, the RSF announced a “military alliance” with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu - a group controlling large swaths of South Kordofan and parts of Blue Nile state near the Ethiopian border.
The ongoing war in Sudan has claimed tens of thousands of lives, displaced more than 12 million and caused the “biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded”, according to the International Rescue Committee.
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