The army advances while looking to recover Khartum

The residents of the capital of Sudan, Khartum, say that the army has recovered large parts of the city of the RSF paramilitaries, marking their greatest victory in a year.

“The shrapnel and street ammunition are falling on my neighborhood,” a doctor calls Mustafa He tells the BBC. “The clashes these days are heavy.”

The key sites recaptured by the army this week include the mint, where money is printed.

At the time of writing, the RSF still controls most of Jardum itself. While the army now has most of the territory in the broader tripartite capital, which means Omdurman, Bahri and Khartum.

But, after recovering total control of Gezira’s crucial state, the army believes that it now has the impulse to take the capital as well and break the siege of almost two years of RSF.

“Very soon there will be no rebels in Jardtum”, Leader of the announced army and de facto ruling Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

The end of this conflict cannot be quick enough.

Humanitarian workers say that people are starving throughout the country as a result of war. In Jartoum alone, more than 100,000 people suffer from famineAccording to researchers backed by the UN.

Since the war broke out almost two years ago between General Burhan and his deputy, the rival, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, who leads the RSF, 12 million people have been forced from their homes and tens of thousands of civilians have been massacred.

Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, he agrees in international aid agencies.

They say that both the army and especially the RSF are guilty of committing some of the most serious atrocities imaginable against innocent civilians, including the genocide in Darfur.

Both forces deny the accusations.

The Army has been jubilantly welcome by many inhabitants of the areas that it has recently recaptured, since the RSF has been widely accused of killing and raping civilians in Jardtum, in addition to looting the houses of the many residents who have fled the city.

The army progress reports have been dismissed by the RSF as “lies and rumors.” They have made similar denials before each retirement in recent weeks.

Analysts say that the recent successes of the army have been the result of enlisting more fighters and buying more weapons. Winning back the headquarters of the Situiated Army was also a great blessing earlier this month.

The expulsion of the army of the Paramilitary Group of the central city of Wad Madani in January was tarnished by accusations of summary executions and arbitrary compensation attacks against those received as informants or RSF collaborators.

Without a doubt, this will generate fears among some Japa residents that the same destiny awaits them.

“When you open social networks and see all the murder, if you have committed something wrong, you must be worried,” Mustafa told the BBC.

“Some of them led the fighters to people’s homes. Others joined (the RSF) and stole properties, terrified people, even had women against their will (As sex slaves). They did horrible things.

“Are they terrified of what will come? Of course.”

But sometimes there is a thin line between being seen as a collaborator and the reality of survival in war.

“I am worried about my cousin,” says Amir, who lives in the twin city of Omdurman in Jartoum, who is just on the other side of the Nile River.

“He is not a collaborator or an informant: he often has to deal with these people (the RSF) because he is taking care of his mother and his children. Will he be killed (by the army) or will he leave it alone?”

For now, as the army approaches and the future hands of Sudan in balance, everything Mustafa and Amir can do is wait.

Some names have changed in this report for security reasons.