Updated by Faith Barbara.N.Ruhinda at 13:28 EAT on Friday 21 March 2025

The army says it is pursuing fleeing RSF soldiers in parts of central Khartoum and also preparing to enter Tuti island in Khartoum.

The island, which is located where the White Nile and Blue Nile rivers merge, is still under RSF control.

The RSF did not immediately comment on the retaking of the palace and the army’s advances in Khartoum.

Elsewhere in Sudan, the paramilitary group said late on Thursday that it had seized a key base from the army in North Darfur, a region in the west of the country

Some Sudanese have welcomed the recapturing of the palace by the army.

“We want to be safe again and live without fear or hunger,” he added.

The two-year civil war has caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, according to the UN.

The taking of the presidential palace and – if it happens – the recapture of the entire capital by the army would be a significant moment, but it is not the end of the two-year conflict.

The RSF paramilitary force still controls large parts of the country, including much of the western Darfur region which has seen some of the deadliest violence over the past two years.

Many posts on social media are showing jubilant soldiers waving their guns in the air, cheering and kneeling to pray at the entrance to the presidential palace.

Besides the palace, the Sudan’s army said it had also taken control of ministries and other key buildings in central Khartoum.

“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 broadcast on state television.

Abdallah vowed the army would “continue to progress on all fronts until victory is complete and every inch of our country is purged of the militia and its supporters”.

This has been the crucial battle in the army’s offensive to retake the capital from its paramilitary rivals.

The presidential palace is in central Khartoum, the area that includes most of the government ministries and financial institutions – the army’s been advancing there in recent days amid fierce fighting.

It’s also a symbolic victory – because the palace has great historic and political significance.

The RSF continues to fight in parts of the city.

But re-capturing the strategic building signals the end of its control over the capital.

This could be a pivotal moment in Sudan’s brutal civil war, but would not end it.

Two years of conflict have created a massive humanitarian crisis and split the country in two, between zones controlled by the army and the RSF.

The Sudanese army has recaptured the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum amid intense fighting.

The strategic building was seized by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which took control of the capital when civil war erupted nearly two years ago.

The conflict has escalated in recent months with the army making significant advances against the RSF.

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