The paramilitary fighters, along with Sudan’s Rapid Support Force, started returning from a large number of Khartum’s fight on Wednesday, ran away from a city since a ruined war nearly two years ago.
Sudan’s military occupies the city is a dramatic turn that is currently the largest war in Africa. The Rapid Support Force, known as RSF, is likely to withdraw its stronghold in Darfur in the west of the country, according to analysts.
Surveillance drone footage aired by Sudan’s army showed hundreds of RSF fighters crossing a dam on Neil in Jebel Auliya in the south of the capital – their last remaining escape route.
Brigadier. Military spokesperson General Nail Abdullah said that the army had captured a prominent RSF camp near the dam. “This was his last rest camp in Khartum,” he said. “Some remains live here and there in the pocket. They will be destroyed soon.”
Sudan’s army and rapid support forces, two generals, once colleagues, about two years ago went to fight a dispute about a plan for RSF paramilitary soldiers who were to be absorbed by the army.
The battle has killed an estimated 150,000 people and displaced over 13 million, which flee to about four million neighboring countries – the world’s largest displacement crisis. The refugees have told about the escape from rape, massacre and starvation.
The video posted on social media shows that the citizens reached the south of Khatum, celebrating Sudani as military forces, as the paramilitary escaped a few hours after the escape.
In Kalkala, 10 miles from the city center, citizens put it on the streets, who were on the motorbike to cheer, hoping and cheering to Sudani military forces.
Similar scenes appeared in other neighborhoods close to the city center, as the military force has been advanced, the video verified by the New York Times is shown.
Five days after a sudden return, the army captured the President’s palace in the Central Khartum, a major symbolic and strategic victory that indicated a significant change in the direction of war.
Since then, the army has confiscated continuous control over the capital, controlling the center of the destroyed city before moving towards the international airport.
The pockets of RSF fighters continued to oppose the advance of the army. As journalists of time passed through the uninhabited city center on Tuesday, explosion and gunfire explosions exited the sporadic on some roads.
But on Wednesday morning, the army announced that it had seized the control of the airport, which was lined with the ruins of the passengers who were released at the beginning of the war in April 2023. On Wednesday afternoon, the soldiers posed on the runway for television cameras before an abandoned aircraft.
The last concentration of RSF fighters in the capital appeared in the southern and western part of Omdurman on the west coast of Neil. The army controls the northern half of Omdurman, and the controlled areas of the army have received sporadic shellfire from RSF posts in recent years.
Abdalrahman Altabe Contribution reporting.
