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Khartoum, Sudan – 21 March 2023
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1. Sudanese military personnel standing outside the Republican Palace in Khartoum while dancing, celebrating and chanting
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Sudan’s military said Friday it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion of rival paramilitary forces in the capital, after nearly two years of fighting.
The seizure of the Republican Palace, surrounded by government ministries, represents a major symbolic victory for Sudan’s military against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
However, it likely doesn’t mean the end of the war as the RSF holds territory in Sudan’s western Darfur region and elsewhere.
Sudanese military personnel were celebrating and chanting in front of the palace.
The palace appeared to be partly in ruins, with soldiers’ steps crunching broken tiles underneath their boots. Soldiers carrying assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers chanted: “God is the greatest!”
Sudan, a nation in northeastern Africa, has been unstable since a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir in 2019.
A short-lived transition to democracy was derailed when Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, leader of the armed forces, led a military coup in 2021.
The RSF and Sudan’s military then began fighting each other in 2023.
Burhan’s forces, including Sudan’s military and allied militias, have advanced against the RSF since the start of this year.
They retook a key refinery north of Khartoum.
They then pushed in on RSF positions around the capital itself.
The fighting has led to an increase in civilian casualties.
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