Sudan’s military retakes Khartoum airport from paramilitary RSF – INA NEWS

Sudan’s military has recaptured Khartoum airport from the paramilitary Fast Help Forces (RSF), “absolutely securing it”, in accordance with navy sources.

Troopers additionally encircled areas surrounding the airport within the Sudanese capital on Wednesday, a key growth in a two-year-old battle between the armed forces and rival RSF.

Troops “surrounded the strategic Jebel Awliya space” south of central Khartoum, the final massive RSF stronghold within the space, a navy supply instructed the AFP information company, requesting anonymity as a result of he isn’t authorised to transient the media.

The military additionally secured either side of the Manshiya bridge, which crosses the Blue Nile in Khartoum, leaving the Jebel Awliya bridge simply south of the capital as the one crossing out of the realm nonetheless below RSF management.

The navy, at struggle with the RSF since April 2023, launched a marketing campaign this week to push the paramilitary forces out of central Khartoum, after recapturing the presidential palace in a key victory on Friday.

RSF fighters had been stationed contained in the airport, simply east of central Khartoum’s authorities and enterprise district, for the reason that struggle started.

Throughout town, witnesses and activists reported that RSF fighters have been retreating southwards from neighbourhoods they beforehand managed, ostensibly in the direction of Jebel Awliya.

“These are fairly vital positive aspects by the Sudanese armed forces simply previously few hours,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from Khartoum on Wednesday.

“The airport was one of many first locations that the RSF took management of through the first days of the battle, and it was break up into two,” with a part of it below authorities management and half below RSF management, she mentioned.

“With the military’s progress previously few hours, the military was in a position to retake full management of the airport, together with the civilian facet … They have been additionally in a position to achieve management of a number of residential districts across the airport.”

The RSF didn’t appear to be “placing up a lot of a combat”, Morgan added.

In almost two years, the struggle has killed tens of hundreds of individuals, uprooted greater than 12 million and created the world’s largest starvation and displacement crises.

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