Sudanese Army Recaptures Presidential Palace

Sudan military leaders have said that the Sudanese army has recaptured the presidential palace in Khartoum from the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

Video and photographs posted on social media and verified by the BBC show jubilant soldiers waving their guns, cheering, and kneeling to pray. The army appears poised to regain control of the capital two years after it was kicked out by its paramilitary rivals, known as the RSF.

The paramilitary group has yet to comment. Sudan's state television has been showing pictures of celebrating soldiers. Nabil Abdallah, the army spokesperson, said on state TV that the military took control of the palace and ministry buildings in central Khartoum. Khartoum is where the country's brutal civil war began nearly two years ago, and where some of its biggest battles were fought.

The RSF has held most of the capital as well as the west of Sudan since the start of the war. Army spokesperson Nabil Abdallah says the fighting will continue.