Cairo – The Sudan Army said Wednesday that he had recovered the Jartoum International Airport and a key base of the Paramilitary Group of the Rival Fast Support forces, which brought him closer to recovering the total control of the capital for the first time in Almost two years of war.
The army announced the seizure of the airport on social networks, saying that General Abdel-Fattah Burhan had landed there and inspected troops. He published a video that showed a smiling Burhan in a military helicopter descending to the asphalt, where some traces of remains were visible.
The troops also recaptured the last strength of the RSF in Jardtum, the Teiba Al-Hannab camp, the Brig Army spokesman. General Nabil Abdullah Ali said on social networks.
There were no immediate comments from RSF.
Sudan military on Friday Retomar the Republican Palacethe government headquarters before the war. The RSF had celebrated the Palace, the airport and large parts of the capital since the war began in April 2023.
“This is a fundamental and decisive moment in the history of Sudan,” information minister Khalid Aleiser, spokesman for the army controlled by the army, said on social networks. “Jartoum is free, as it should be.”
The military control of the airport, together with the calm in Jardum, could allow help groups to fly more supplies to the country where the fighting has taken about 14 million people from their homes and He pushed some areas to the famine.
At least 28,000 people have been killed, although the number is probably much higher.
It is still believed that the RSF maintains scattered positions in Jardum. But releasing the capital The conflict does not endsince the RSF still controls parts of the western region of Darfur and other areas.
The war broke out when the army and the RSF became one against the other in a struggle for power. His battles around Jartum extended rapidly throughout much of the country.
During most of the war, Burhan and the government have headed in the coastal city of the Red Sea of Port Sudan.
