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Agence France-Presse

Sudan’s military said it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last bastion in the capital of rival paramilitary forces, after nearly two years of fighting.
Social media videos showed its soldiers inside giving the date as the 21st day of Ramadan, which was Friday.
A Sudanese military officer made the announcement in the video, and confirmed troops were inside the compound.
The palace appeared to be partly in ruins. Soldiers carrying assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers chanted: “God is the greatest!”
Khaled al-Aiser, Sudan’s information minister, said the military had retaken the palace.
“Today the flag is raised, the palace is back and the journey continues until victory is complete,” he wrote on X.

The fall of the palace, a compound along the Nile River that was the seat of government before the war and is immortalised on banknotes, marks another battlefield gain for Sudan’s military.
It has made steady advances in recent months under army chief General Abdel-Fattah Burhan.
However, the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF), under General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, said on Friday that it remained in the palace’s vicinity and had launched an attack killing dozens of army soldiers inside.
Army sources said its forces had suffered a drone attack that killed several soldiers and three journalists.
The army has long been on the back foot but has recently made gains and has retaken territory in the centre of the country.
However, the fighting is not likely to stop as the RSF and its allies still hold territory elsewhere in Sudan.
On Thursday the RSF claimed it seized control of al-Maliha, a strategic desert city in North Darfur. Sudan’s military has acknowledged fighting around al-Maliha, but has not said it lost the city.

Al-Maliha is around 200km (125 miles) north of the city of El Fasher, which remains held by the military despite near-daily RSF strikes.
The UN says the conflict has created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
Over 28,000 people have been killed, while millions have fled their homes and some people have eaten grass in a desperate attempt to survive.
Other estimates suggest a far higher death toll.
The Republican Palace was the seat of power during Sudan’s British colonisation. It also saw some of the first independent Sudanese flags raised over the country in 1956, and had been the main office of Sudan’s president and other top officials.
Sudan, in northeastern Africa, has been unstable since a popular uprising forced the removal of long-time autocratic President Omar al-Bashir in 2019.
A short-lived transition to democracy was derailed when Burhan and Dagalo led a 2021 military coup.
The RSF and military began fighting in 2023.
Burhan’s forces, including the military and allied militias, have advanced against the RSF this year.
Al-Bashir faces charges at the International Criminal Court over a genocidal campaign in the early 2000s with the Janjaweed, the RSF’s precursor.
Rights groups and the UN accuse the RSF and allied Arab militias of again attacking ethnic African groups in this war.
The Sudanese military and the RSF have faced allegations of human rights abuses. When President Joe Biden was in office, the US said the RSF is committing genocide.
The military and the RSF have denied abuses.


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Sudanese army members film themselves inside the presidential palace in Khartoum on Friday, as the army says it has taken control of the building. Photo: Screenshot from social media video, via Reuters 

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People displaced from eastern areas of Sudan arrive to Gedaref city. Photo: AFP

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The fighting has caused a massive humanitarian crisis, killing thousands, forcing millions to flee and leaving some families eating grass


The fighting has caused a massive humanitarian crisis, killing thousands, forcing millions to flee and leaving some families eating grass.


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