Sudan’s military said on Saturday that it had seized several key buildings in central Khartoum from paramilitary control after army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan promised “full liberation” following the recapture of the presidential palace.
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Army spokesman 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 on Saturday said dozens of civilians had been killed in a paramilitary attack in a remote part of North Darfur state, hundreds of kilometres (miles) 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.
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An RSF source confirmed that its fighters had “withdrawn from some locations in central Khartoum,” but added “the battle has not been decided yet”.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.