Sudan Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

Barbara Plett Usher

BBC News, Sudan port

The Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gene had to move its base to Port Sudan because of the fighter (file photo)

Reuters Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Saluting, in a military uniform and many medals — The Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gene had to move its base to Port Sudan because of the fighter (file photo)

Sudan’s military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has visited the presidential palace in the capital, Khartum, after disembarking at the city’s international airport, a few hours after the army was raised.

Surrounded by encouraging soldiers to the enclosure, an important symbol of absolute power and sovereignty – Burhan stated: « Khartum is free. »

Previously, an army commander told the BBC that his troops had completely secured the airport and that the rest of the RSF fighters could be erased at the end of the day.

The army has quickly moved since the recovery of the presidential palace on Friday and has taken state institutions taken by the RSF.

The RSF had controlled most of Khartum since the war began in April 2023. At the national level, hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions have been forced to flee their homes.

An army spokesman also told the BBC that the troops had taken the Manshiya bridge, the last RSF bridge, along with a military camp in Jebel Awliya, the group’s fortress in southern Khartum.

He said that the army had recovered all bridges through the river Nile connecting the three cities that form a greater Khartum.

Residents have been reporting this week that RSF fighters were retiring south, apparently to Jebel Awliya, the only place where they could still leave the area.

Videos published on social media showed some people at Central khartum who celebrated the army’s advance after which many have described as a brutal occupation of RSF.

Those who do not want or could not leave have constantly denounced the Massion of the RSF, whose fighters took care of civil houses.

Khartum is one of the areas in the country that the United Nations said were the conditions of hunger, due to the looting markets and the restrictions on the aid for both parties.

Rights groups have also documented sexual violence and other abuses.

Both the RSF and the army have also been accused of indiscriminately civil areas.

Early this week, Air Force bombed a market And eye testimonies said that dozens of civilians died.

The military-led government was forced to move to the Sudan port to the Red Sea after the RSF seized the capital’s control at the beginning of the war.

Collecting Khartum is a huge achievement for the army, which could give it a strategic advantage in the war.

But the war is far from ending.

The RSF still maintains almost the entire Darfur region west of Sudan.

Both parties are endorsed by foreign powers that have poured weapons into the country and international peace efforts have failed.