The Sudan Army says that the Jostoum Republican Palace, the country’s government headquarters has resumed

The Sudan Army on Friday resumed the Republican Palace In JartoumThe last very protected bastion of rival paramilitary forces in the capital, after almost two years of struggle.

The seizure of the Republican Palace, surrounded by government ministries, was a great symbolic victory for the Sudan Army against the Paramilitary Fast Support Forces, although it probably does not mean the end of the war, since the RSF has territory in the western region of Darfur de Sudan and in other places.

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The videos of the social networks showed Sudanese soldiers inside the palace, giving the date as day 21 From RamadanThe month of Muslim Holy Fasting, which corresponds to Friday. A Sudanese military officer who wore a jacket jacket from a captain made the announcement in the video and confirmed that the troops were inside the complex.

The palace seemed to be in ruins, with the soldiers who stepped on broken tiles. Troops carrying assault rifles and grenades donkeys for rockets sang: “God is the best!”

Khaled Al-Aiser, the Minister of Information of Sudan, said that the military had resumed the palace in a position on social platform X.

“Today the flag rises, the palace has returned and the trip continues until the victory is completed,” he wrote.

Later, the curious residents wandered around the palace. The walls were marked by rifle rounds. Blood spots led to corpses, randomly covered with blankets.

Palace’s Fall, a symbolic and strategic moment

The fall of the Republican Palace, a compound along the Nile River that was the headquarters of the Government before the war broke out and is immortalized in Sudanese tickets and frank stamps, marks another battlefield gain for the Sudan military, which has made constant progress in recent months under the General of the Abdel-Fattah Burhan army.

It also means that RSF’s rival fighters, under General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, have been mainly expelled from the capital, Jartum. Sporadic shots could be heard throughout the capital on Friday, although it was not clear if it meant fighting or was celebrating.

Brig. Gen. Nabil Abdullah, spokesman for Sudanese militaryHe said his troops are celebrating the palace, the buildings of the surrounding ministry and the Arab market south of the complex.

The Jetoum International Airport, only about 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) to the southeast of the palace, has been held by the RSF since the beginning of the war in April 2023.

Suleiman Sandal, a politician associated with the RSF, acknowledged that the army took the palace and called him part of “the ups and downs” of history.

The RSF then issued a statement claiming that their forces “are still present from the neighborhood of the area, fighting bravely.” According to the reports, an attack with unmanned airplanes in the palace that is believed that RSF killed troops and journalists with Sudanese state television.

On Thursday night, the RSF said he confiscated the control of the Sudanese city of Al-Maliha, a city of the strategic desert in northern Darfur, near the borders with Chad and Libya. The Sudan Army has recognized the fight for Al-Maliha, but has not said that he lost the city.

Al-Maliha is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) to the north of the city of El Fasher, which remains in the hands of the Sudanese army despite the almost daily strikes by besieging RSF.

The UN Chief Chief has said that the Sudan conflict has created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. UNICEF on Friday denounced separately the looting of food aid aimed at going to malnourished children at the Al Bashir hospital on the outskirts of Jardtum.

“Commercial supplies and humanitarian aid have been blocked for more than three months due to continuous conflict along the key routes,” UNICEF warned. “The result is a serious shortage of food, medicine and other essential elements, with thousands of civilians trapped in active struggle.”

The war has killed more than 28,000 people, forced millions to flee from their homes and left some families eating grass in a desperate attempt to survive while the famine barre parts of the country. Other estimates suggest a much higher number of deaths.

The Republican Palace became the headquarters of power during the British colonization of Sudan. He also saw some of the first independent Sudan flags raised in 1956. The complex had also been the main office of the president of Sudan and other senior officials.

The Sudanese army has long attacked the palace and its land, bombing and shooting in the complex.

Sudan has faced years of chaos and war

Sudan, a nation in the northeast of Africa, has been unstable since a popular uprising forced the elimination of the autocratic president of a lot of Omar Al-Bashir in 2019. A short-term transition to democracy was derailn when Burhan and Dagalo led a military coup in 2021.

The RSF and the Sudan Army began to fight each other in 2023.

Since the beginning of the year, Burhan’s forces, including the military and allies of Sudan, have advanced against the RSF. They paid a key refinery to the north of Jardum, pushed the RSF positions around Jardum. The fight has led to an increase in civilian casualties.

Al-Bashir faces charges in the International Criminal Court for carrying out a genocidal campaign in the early 2000s in the Western Darfur region with the Janjaweed militia, the precursor of RSF. The rights groups and the UN accuse the RSF and the ancient Arab militias of attacking African ethnic groups again in this last war.

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Since the war began, both the Sudanese army and the RSF have faced accusations of human rights abuse. Before the president of the United States, Joe Biden, left the position, the State Department declared that the RSF is committing genocide.

The army and the RSF have denied committing abuse.