Sudanese army reclaims key parts of Khartoum in major victory
The Sudanese army has recaptured large parts of the capital Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), marking its biggest victory in a year.
According to Sudan Tribune, the army’s armoured corps released footage of officers and soldiers in front of the Traffic Signs and License Plates Factory on al-Ghaba Street and north of the Currency Printing Press. Al-Ghaba Street leads to central Khartoum and the Mugran area west of the city centre.
In recent weeks, the army has intensified its offensive to reclaim key areas of the capital, which it lost when the war began in April 2023.
Currently, the RSF controls most of Khartoum proper, while the army now holds the majority of territory across the wider tripartite capital, including Omdurman, Bahri, and Khartoum.
After regaining near-total control of the crucial state of Gezira, the army believes it has the momentum to capture the capital and break the RSF’s nearly two-year siege.
“Very soon there will be no rebels in Khartoum,” announced army leader Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Tuesday.
The army has been jubilantly welcomed by many inhabitants of the areas it has recently recaptured, as the RSF has been widely accused of killing and raping civilians in Khartoum, as well as looting the homes of residents who have fled the city.
In January, the army captured a strategic oil refinery north of Khartoum and broke the siege on its main headquarters in central Khartoum.
The army chief visited the facility days later and promised to remove the paramilitary forces from “every corner of Sudan.”
As the fighting continues, hundreds of people, including many children, have been killed in recent days, according to civilian witnesses, medical workers, and the United Nations.
The conflict has unleashed a wave of devastation across the country, killing tens of thousands of people, forcing millions to flee their homes, and pushing parts of the vast nation deeper into famine.
“The citizens are currently living in a state of panic,” said Asim Ahmed Musa, 29, an activist in Kadugli city in South Kordofan state, where dozens were killed this week.
UNICEF reported this week that at least 40 children were killed in just three days earlier this month.
“As the conflict persists, children’s lives and futures hang in the balance, and for their sakes, the violence must end immediately,” the UNICEF Sudan representative, Annmarie Swai, said in a statement.
