BREAKING: Sudanese Army Surrounds Khartoum Airport in Major Advance Against RSF

The Sudanese Army has encircled Khartoum Airport and its surrounding areas, marking another advance in its ongoing conflict with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), two military sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

In a separate statement, the army announced it had taken control of the Tiba al-Hassanab camp in Jabal Awliya, describing it as the RSF’s main base in central Sudan and its last stronghold in Khartoum.

The conflict, now in its second year, had seen the army largely on the defensive, with the war threatening to divide the country and causing a severe humanitarian crisis. However, the military has recently regained territory from the RSF in central Sudan, including seizing the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday.

Witnesses reported on Wednesday that RSF forces had mainly stationed themselves in southern Khartoum, securing withdrawal routes via bridges to the neighbouring city of Omdurman.

The United Nations describes the situation in Sudan as the world’s most severe humanitarian crisis, citing widespread famine and disease affecting the country’s 50 million people.

The war erupted two years ago amid Sudan’s plans for a transition to democratic rule. The army and RSF had previously worked together to remove longtime leader Omar al-Bashir in 2019 and later to depose the civilian leadership. However, tensions had long existed between the two factions, as Bashir had built up the RSF, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, as a counterbalance to the army, commanded by career officer Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.