Khartoum (TDI): The Sudanese army is encircling Khartoum airport and surrounding areas, marking another gain in its two-year-old conflict with a rival armed group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Reuters reported on Wednesday.
Separately, Sudan’s army said in a statement it had taken control of the Tiba al-Hassanab camp in Jabal Awliya, describing this as the RSF’s main base in central Sudan and its last stronghold in the capital.
The army had long been on the back foot in a war that threatens to partition Sudan and has caused a humanitarian disaster.
But it has recently made advancements and has retaken territory from the RSF in the center of the country.
The army seized presidential palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday.
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Witnesses said on Wednesday that RSF had mainly deployed its forces in southern Khartoum to secure their withdrawal from the capital via bridges to the neighbouring city of Omdurman.
The UN calls the situation in Sudan the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with famine in several locations and disease across the country of fifty million population.
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The war started two years ago as the country was planning a transition to democratic rule.
The army and RSF had joined hands after toppling Omar al-Bashir’s regime in 2019 and later in ousting the civilian leadership, but developed differences later.
