Sudan army advances in Khartoum

Army spokesperson Nabil Abdallah said the military was “continuing to pressure” the Rapid Support Forces throughout the city centre, giving a list of buildings recaptured including the Central Bank, state intelligence headquarters and the Sudan National Museum.
Despite its advances in the capital, Africa's third largest country remains effectively split in two, with the army holding the east and north while the RSF controls nearly all of the western region of Darfur and parts of the south.
Activists at the weekend said doz- ens of civilians had been killed in a paramilitary attack in a remote part of North Darfur state, hundreds of kilometres from the capital.
Sudan's national institutions in Khartoum’s centre were all overrun and looted by paramilitaries in the first weeks after fighting erupted in April 2023.
An RSF source confirmed that its fighters had “withdrawn from some locations in central Khartoum,” but added “the battle has not been decided yet”.
“Our forces are now waging a fierce battle” near the airport, he said on condition of anonymity.
RSF forces remain inside what remains of the airport, which has been heavily damaged during nearly two years of fighting.
Last week, the army and allied armed groups retook the presidential palace from the RSF, which retaliated with a drone strike that killed three members of a Sudanese TV crew and several army personnel.
The paramilitaries had used the palace to house their elite forces and stockpile ammunition, according to military sources.
Photos showed parts of the palace blasted away by ba...