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Sudan's army seized the Presidential Palace in Khartoum, hitting a blow to the rapid support forces in a key symbolic victory.
The army of Sudan and its supporters celebrate all over the country after the troops seized the Presidential Palace in the capital Khartoum.
Friday's victory is probably the army's most symbolism after the key counteraction against the paramilitary forces of rapid support (RSF) in September last year.
RSF continues to control the pockets in South Khartoum, but has lost the bigger part of the capital since Sudan broke out in a civil war in April 2023.
The development comes just days after RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan, Hemedi, Dagalo, released a video calling for his fighters not to give up the palace.
Civilians usually welcomed the army as liberators, despite some reports of army militias committing human rights violations after the RSF withdrawal.
RSF has carried out countless atrocities in Sudan, including in Khartoum.
A recent report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has found that the RSF fighters have detained at least 10,000 people in Khartoum since the beginning of the war to June last year.
“In the RSF regions, they kill people, rape women and destroy all humanity. Whenever the army arrives, people become happy because they feel more secure. Even children are joyful,” says Youssef, a young Sudanese man.
A different scenario outside Khartoum
The capture of the Army of the Presidential Palace is raising fears that Sudan is increasingly approaching de facto, analysts say.
The RSF is already supporting a parallel government and remains under the control of four of the five regions in the scattered region of Darfur, which is approximately the size of France.
The RSF recently captured the strategic desert city of Al Maliha in North Darfur, which is the last region where the army and its aligned armed groups still have some control.
Despite the profit, RSF is struggling to capture El-Fashire, the capital of North Darfur, where the army still has a garrison.
Srinivasan Charat, an expert in Sudan and a professor at the University of Cambridge, told Al Jazeera that Sudan seems to be heading for a “Libya script”, citing a division in government between two competing authorities, which are in accordance with a network of armed groups and militias.
“I think that geographical bifurcation is becoming stronger, with the exception of El-Fashire, of course. RSF must provide El-Fasher in order to request a factual condition that is not at all certain,” he said.
Time for peace?
The army has a long refused to join peace talks with RSF And he has repeatedly said that he plans to restore the whole country.
RSF also uses diplomacy as a cover for the escalation of military operations in Sudan, analysts told Al Jazeera. In January last year, Hemedti signed a “Declaration of Principles” with a seemingly anti -war coalition known as Taqaddum.
Hemedi then visited several heads of state in Africa As his strengths continue to break down, kill and terrorize civilians in the state, Gizan in Sudan, a major bread.
Both sides recently promised to continue to fight, raising fears that clashes could intensify in the western part of the country, especially in the regions of Cordofan and Darfur.
The fight may also escalate into Hardum due to the range of complex weapons that are poured into the country. Only moments, after the army celebrates by regaining the Presidential Palace, a drone hit and killed three journalists in the area, the statement said.
Continuing battles can rotate huge regions of Sudan deeper into turmoil. The conflict has already sparked the largest humanitarian crisis in the world with most measures.
Tens of thousands of people have died, thousands have disappeared and millions suffer from catastrophic levels of nutritional insecurity.
