Sudan military regains management of nationwide TV and radio headquarters from RSF

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Sudan's military posted movies on-line displaying its troopers inside its headquarters within the metropolis of Omdurman.

Sudan's navy has taken management of the nation's nationwide radio and tv headquarters from the rival paramilitary Speedy Assist Forces (RSF), the military mentioned in a press release.

The military posted movies on-line on Tuesday displaying its troops inside its headquarters in Omdurman, a metropolis throughout the Nile River from Khartoum that’s a part of Sudan's wider capital, the place the military claims current good points after a sequence of navy losses. Have achieved.

There was no instant remark from RSF.

Preventing broke out in mid-April 2023 amid tensions over plans for a transition to civilian rule.

In 2021, warring factions staged a coup that derailed the earlier transition that overthrew longtime chief Omar al-Bashir in 2019.

Al Jazeera's Hiba Morgan, reporting from Khartoum, mentioned the military had captured the media headquarters after weeks of advances towards the RSF.

“After in a single day preventing between the RSF and the Sudanese military, and advances from the military right here within the metropolis of Omdurman, the military was capable of retake management of the station,” Morgan mentioned.

“This exhibits that the military has been making regular good points from the RSF over the previous few weeks, recapturing territory and in addition capturing floor from the RSF in Omdurman metropolis and another components of the capital.”

The warfare in Sudan has devastated the capital, fueled a spate of ethnically based mostly killings within the western area of Darfur and sparked the world's largest displacement disaster.

The United Nations has referred to as for a ceasefire over the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, however the military has refused to cease hostilities with the RSF till the paramilitary group vacates civilian amenities within the capital of Khartoum and elsewhere.

“So the preventing continues right here within the capital, Khartoum,” Morgan mentioned. “We had been capable of see many plumes of smoke rising from completely different components of the capital over the previous few hours – and we had been additionally capable of hear artillery fireplace.”

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