A number of journalists and military personnel lost their lives when a drone attack struck a build where they were having a media briefing at the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.
This happened as the Sudanese Armed Forces battled the Rapid Support Forces for the control of the capital City. It was reported on Sudan state TV that the Sudanese army seized full control of the Presidential Palace Friday.
The army was conducting search operations in areas around the palace in pursuit of members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), sources said.
The paramilitary group took the palace and most of the capital at the outbreak of war in April 2023, but the Sudanese Armed Forces have in recent months staged a comeback and inched towards the palace along the River Nile.
The RSF, which earlier this year began establishing a parallel government, maintains control of parts of Khartoum and neighbouring Omdurman, as well as western Sudan, where it is fighting to take over the army’s last stronghold in Darfur, al-Fashir. Reuters
