The building was formerly the main office of Sudan’s president and other top officials, but the victory is unlikely to mark the end of the war
A mother feeds her child, who is suffering from malnutrition, next to a doctor in Alban Jadeed hospital in Khartoum. Photo: Reuters
A mother feeds her child, who is suffering from malnutrition, next to a doctor in Alban Jadeed hospital in Khartoum. Photo: Reuters
Samy Magdy
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Sudan’s military yesterday retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion of rival paramilitary forces in the capital, after nearly two years of fighting.
The seizure of the Republican Palace, surrounded by government ministries, was a major symbolic victory for Sudan’s military against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces – though it likely doesn’t mean the end of the war as the RSF holds territory in Sudan’s western Darfur region and elsewhere.