INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
sources.Soldiers also encircled areas surrounding the airport in the Sudanese capital on Wednesday, a key development in a two-year-old
large RSF stronghold in the area, a military source told the AFP news agency, requesting anonymity because he is not authorized to brief the
media.The army also secured both sides of the Manshiya bridge, which crosses the Blue Nile in Khartoum, leaving the Jebel Awliya bridge just
south of the capital as the only crossing out of the area still under RSF control.The military, at war with the RSF since April 2023,
launched a campaign this week to push the paramilitary forces out of central Khartoum, after recapturing the presidential palace in a key
since the war began.Across the city, witnesses and activists reported that RSF fighters have been retreating southwards from neighbourhoods
they previously controlled, ostensibly towards Jebel Awliya.Witnesses said that RSF had mainly stationed its forces in southern Khartoum to
yesterday of many residents, and even prisoners who were under RSF controlled territory, freeing themselves and running with full jubilation
largest hunger and displacement crises.(Source: Al Jazeera)
