According to the Army, its troops inflicted heavy losses on the RSF in the fighting in Um Rauaba in North Kordofan, central Kordofan, a strategic success for the armed forces because of the town’s location on a major highway.

The city is the second most populated in North Kordofan and is less than 500 kilometers from the capital.

Political analysts highlighted Friday the advance of the army offensive in Omdurman and Khartoum North, very close to Khartoum, where its troops managed to break the paramilitary encirclement.

Since mid-April 2023, Sudan has been plunged into an internal war, after the contradictions over power issues between the army chief Abdel Fatah al-Burhan, and the leader of the paramilitary RSF, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, flared up.

The conflict is keeping away 11 million Sudanese from their homes, in what experts consider to be the world’s largest displacement crisis.

The fighting has also destroyed countless livelihoods, plunging the country into a complex spiral of hunger and death.

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