The Sudan Army said on Saturday that he seized several key buildings in the Jardrum of Paramilitary Control after the Chief of the Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan army promised “full release” after the recapture of the presidential palace.
Army spokesman Nabil Abdallah said the army “continued to press” the rapid support forces (RSF) throughout the city center, giving a list of recaptured buildings, including the Central Bank, the state intelligence headquarters and the National Museum of Sudan.
The National Institutions of Sudan in the city center were invaded and looted by paramilitaries in the first weeks after the fight broke out in April 2023.
A source of RSF confirmed to AFP that their combatants had “retired from some places in the center of Jardum”, but added: “The battle has not yet been decided.”
“Our forces are now freeing a fierce battle” near the airport, he said in condition of anonymity. RSF fighters remain parked within what is left of the airport, which has been very damaged for almost two years of struggle.
On Friday, the army and the allied armed groups resumed the presidential palace of the RSF, which represents with a drone strike that killed three journalists and several members of the army staff.
The paramilitaries had used the palace to house their elite forces and reserve ammunition, according to military sources.
The battle for the Government and the Financial District of Jartoum could consolidate the control of the military over the capital. It would provide a significant advantage in the devastating two -year war of the country, but it is unlikely to finish it.
With its progress on Friday, the army has taken the entire southern side of the Blue Nile, which separates the capital of Jardtum North. He has also secured the main route through the white Nile from the city center to the twin city of Omdurman in Jartoum.
Since April 2023, the army led by the Chief of the Army Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has fought against the RSF, headed by its former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
After a year and a half of humiliating defeats, the tide seemed to become at the end of last year, when a counteroffensive of the army through the center of Sudan led to its recapture of much of Jardum.
‘Advance towards liberation’
The Chief of the Army Burhan said that his forces were “advancing with constant steps towards the full release of Sudan”, in a video shared by the army on Saturday. “The battle is not over, we will continue,” he told the cheers and ululations in Al-Kamlin, a city about 100 kilometers southwest of Jardtum, the day before.
Army sources said the paramilitaries withdrew in buildings in Al-Mogran, an area west of the palace housing banks and the business headquarters. The paramilitarians published snipers in the high laughter of the district, which pass both Omdurman and the ministries of the Jardtum center.
“Our forces in the Jardum center continue to press Daglo’s thugs … [who] They are trying to escape our forces, ”said Army spokesman Nabil Abdallah.
He said the army had “eliminated hundreds of militia members who tried to escape through the pockets in the Jardum center.”
The analysts warned that even if the army recovered the entire Great Jardum, it would not spell the end of the brutal war of Sudan, which has killed tens of thousands of people and uprooted more than 12 million.
The third largest country in Africa is still divided into two, with the army holding the east and north, while the RSF controls almost the entire western region of Darfur and parts of the south.
