Sudan’s navy posts movies on-line displaying its troopers contained in the headquarters within the metropolis of Omdurman.
Sudan’s military has taken management of the nation’s nationwide radio and tv headquarters from the rival paramilitary Speedy Help Forces (RSF), the military stated in a press release.
The navy posted movies on-line displaying its troopers contained in the headquarters on Tuesday in Omdurman, a metropolis throughout the Nile from Khartoum that varieties a part of Sudan’s wider capital, the place the military has claimed current good points after a string of navy losses.
There was no fast remark from the RSF.
The battle broke out in mid-April 2023 amid tensions over a plan for transition to civilian rule.
In 2021, the warring factions staged a coup that derailed a earlier transition following the 2019 overthrow of longtime chief Omar al-Bashir.
Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from Khartoum, stated the navy’s takeover of the media headquarters follows weeks of good points in opposition to the RSF.
“After in a single day battles between the RSF and the Sudanese military, and after good points from the military right here within the metropolis of Omdurman, the military was in a position to retake management of the station,” stated Morgan.
“It exhibits that the military over the previous few weeks has been making regular good points from the RSF, regaining territory and recapturing grounds again from the RSF within the metropolis of Omdurman and in another components of the capital as nicely.”
The battle in Sudan has devastated the capital, sparked waves of ethnically pushed killings within the western area of Darfur and created the world’s largest displacement disaster.
The United Nations has known as for a ceasefire over the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, however the military has rejected a pause in hostilities with the RSF until the paramilitary group vacates civilian services within the capital of Khartoum and elsewhere.
“So preventing continues right here within the capital Khartoum,” Morgan stated. “We have been in a position to see, prior to now few hours, a number of plumes of smoke rising in numerous components of the capital – and we have been in a position to hear artillery shelling.”