Sudanese army seizes control over main headquarters of central bank
The Sudanese army seized control of the main headquarters of the country’s central bank, as the army continues to make advances in the capital against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Reuters reported on Saturday, citing two military sources.
The takeover came a day after it seized full control of the presidential palace in what would be a major gain in a two-year-old conflict with the RSF that has threatened to partition the country.
“We continue to fight, and our perseverance and spirit come from the Sudanese people and their support for the armed forces,” army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said in a speech broadcast by Sudan’s state news agency on Friday.
Many Sudanese welcomed the army’s statement that it had control of the palace.
“The liberation of the palace is the best news I’ve heard since the start of the war, because it means the start of the army controlling the rest of Khartoum,” said a 55-year-old Khartoum resident, Mohamed Ibrahim.
“We want to be safe again and live without fear or hunger,” he said.
Although the RSF still has positions in Khartoum, its foothold there is more tenuous than at any point since the conflict began, and the trajectory suggests the RSF will be pushed out completely, said Ahmed Soliman, senior research fellow at Chatham House.
