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Paramilitary drones targeted Khartoum International Airport on Wednesday for a second consecutive day, a Sudanese military source told AFP. The source, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to brief the media, said, "Drones targeted Khartoum airport once again at dawn" on Wednesday. He added that army air defenses intercepted the ...
This is Beirut, 09/09 11:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A wave of drone strikes hit key infrastructure and military targets near Sudan's army-held capital Tuesday, witnesses and officials told AFP, bringing to an abrupt end a period of relative calm in the area. Strikes hit a power station, a weapons factory and an oil refinery near Khartoum, witnesses at the sites said on condition of anonymity, ...
This is Beirut, 21/08 13:30 - Reading : less than a minute
Sudan Reconstruction war khartoum
In the streets of Khartoum, workers and residents are busy bringing life back to a capital devastated by war. Rubble, destroyed power stations, gutted buildings… reconstruction will take years, but hope is returning.
This is Beirut, 07/08 13:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Sudan's Prime Minister Kamil Idris arrived in Cairo on Thursday morning for his first official foreign visit since assuming office in May, as his country's army remains gripped by a brutal war with paramilitaries. Idris, a career diplomat and former UN official, is expected to hold talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, according to ...
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Hundreds of Sudanese families are leaving Cairo on a free train journey back to their homeland, torn by two years of war.
This is Beirut, 02/05 11:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In war-ravaged Khartoum, donkey carts clatter over worn asphalt, the smell of tomatoes wafts from newly reopened stalls, and pedestrians dodge burnt-out cars left by two years of war. Life is slowly, cautiously returning to the Sudanese capital, weeks after the army recaptured the city from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who had ...
This is Beirut, 28/03 09:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Sudanese army said it had wrested back full control of Khartoum, nearly two years after losing the capital to rival paramilitaries, capping a weeklong blitz that saw it recapture the presidential palace, the airport and other strategic sites. "Our forces today have... forcibly cleansed the last pockets of the remnants of the Daglo terrorist ...
This is Beirut, 26/03 22:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Sudan Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Khartoum Rapid Support Forces
Sudan's army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, arrived at Khartoum's recaptured presidential palace on Wednesday, declaring the capital "free" of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after nearly two years of war. "Khartoum is free; it's done," said Burhan, Sudan's de facto leader, in a broadcast aired by state television, capping a multi-day ...
This is Beirut, 26/03 13:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Sudanese army on Wednesday recaptured Khartoum airport from the Rapid Support Forces, an army source told AFP, while troops surrounded the paramilitaries' last major holdout position south of the city. The army, battling the RSF since April 2023, "fully secured" the airport in central Khartoum from RSF fighters stationed inside, the source ...
This is Beirut, 21/03 09:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Sudan's army said it recaptured the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Friday after a fierce battle. "Our forces completely destroyed the enemy's fighters and equipment, and seized large quantities of equipment and weapons," army spokesman Nabil Abdallah said in a statement broadcast on state ...
This is Beirut, 19/03 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In a war-ravaged neighbourhood of Sudan's capital Khartoum, the stench from a gaping sewage pit is unbearable as Red Crescent workers pull a bloated body from deep underground. The volunteers say 14 more remain below. "They were shot in the head, some have crushed skulls," Hisham Zein al-Abdeen, head of forensic medicine at Sudan's health ...