The military of the Sudan said on Friday that after almost two years of the fight, the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last, which was badly guarded, had reclaimed the capital’s paramilitary forces.
The seizure of the Republican palace, surrounded by government ministries, is a great symbolic victory for the military of Sudan against the paramilitary Rapid support forces (RSF). However, it probably does not mean the end of the war, since the RSF holds the area in the western Darf region of Sudan and elsewhere.
The war killed more than 28,000 people, forced millions to flee from their houses, and some families who eat grass eat in a desperate attempt to survive as a famine. Other estimates indicate a much higher number of fatalities.
Social media videos showed that his soldiers inside the 21st day of Ramadan, the Holy Muslim fasting month, corresponds to Friday. A Sudanese military officer who wore a captain’s boss text made the announcement in the video and confirmed that the troops were on the premises.
The palace seemed to be partially in ruins, with the steps of the soldiers broken tiles under their boots. Soldiers who wore assault rifles and rocket-attacked grenade launchers sang: “God is the biggest!”
Khaled al-Aiser, the Minister of Information of Sudan, said the military had recaptured the palace in a post on the social platform X.
“Today the flag is raised, the palace is back and the journey continues until the victory is completed,” he wrote.
The RSF later made an explanation in which it was claimed that its armed forces were “still near the area and fights bravely.” A drone attack on the palace, which was assumed that it was launched by the RSF, reported reports and journalists with Sudanese state television.
Humanitarian aid disabled by months of fighting
The Republican palace, a terrain along the Nile River, had been the seat of power during the British colonization of the Sudan. Some of the first independent Sudanese flags were also raised across the country in 1956.
His fall marks another battlefield profit for the military of Sudan. It has achieved constant progress under Army chief General Abdel Fattah Burhan in the past few months.
This means that the rival RSF under General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, was largely excluded from the capital Khartoum after the Sudan war began in April 2023.
Sporadic shots could be heard in the entire capital on Friday, although it was not clear whether it was fighting or was solemn.
Brig. General Nabil Abdullah, a spokesman for the Sudanese military, described his troops as the palace, the surrounding ministry and the Arab market south of the palace. The International Airport of Khartoum, which has been held only 2.5 kilometers southeast of the palace, has been held since the beginning of the war.
Suleiman Sandal, a politician associated with the RSF, gave that the government took over the palace and described it as part of the “ups and downs” of history.
In the late Thursday, the RSF, control of the Sudanese city of Al-Maliha, claimed a strategic desert city in the north of Darfur near the borders Chad and Libya. The military of Sudan recognized that they fought for Al-Maliha, but did not say that the city lost it.
Al-Maliha is located about 200 kilometers north of the city of El Fasher, which is organized by the Sudanese military despite almost daily strikes of the surrounding RSF.
The head of the UN Children’s Agency said that the conflict had created the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis. UNICEF convicted the looting of food aids separately on Friday to go under undernourishing in Al Bashir Hospital on the outskirts of Khartoum.
“Commercial care and humanitarian aid have been blocked for more than three months due to persistent conflicts on key routes,” warned Unicef. “The result is a serious lack of food, medicine and other foundations, with thousands of civilians being caught in active struggle.”
Turbulence since Autocrat Bashir’s fall
The Sudanese military has long targeted the palace and its reasons and shot and shoots on the site. The Sudan has exposed chaos for years and has been unstable since a popular uprising was forced to remove the long-time autocratic president Omar al-Bashir in 2019.
Al-Bashir will be charged with the Janjawed, the forerunner of the RSF, in the early 2000s in the Western region in the Western region in the Western region. Legal groups and the United Nations accuse the RSF and the Allied Arab militias to again attack ethnic African groups in this war.
A short -lived transition to democracy to Bashir’s fall was derailed when Burhan and Dagalo led a military coup in 2021. The military of the RSF and Sudan began to fight against each other in 2023.
Since the beginning of the war, both the Sudanese military and the RSF have allegations of human rights violations.
Before US President Joe Biden left office, the Foreign Ministry said that the RSF obliged a genocide. The military and the RSF have contested the abuse committed.
