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Sudan army retakes Khartoum after nearly two years of fighting, says general
Sky News ^ | March 26 | Sky News

Posted on 03/26/2025 9:39:14 PM PDT by RandFan

Sudan's army chief has declared Khartoum is "free" and that his forces have retaken the capital after nearly two years of fighting.

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have been battling to oust the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from a last foothold in the city, although the war looks far from over.

In videos on social media, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan is seen walking with troops through the presidential palace, which was seized last week​​​​​​ in an important symbolic advance.

"Khartoum is now free. It's over. Khartoum is free. Free. Free," he can be heard telling soldiers.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abdelfattahalburhan; khartoum; rapidsupportforces; rsf; sudan
This is Muslim on Muslim so no dog in this fight but what I will say is the 'rebel' RSF are rapists and pillagers particularly nasty but they wont be spared either so I dont know...
1 posted on 03/26/2025 9:39:14 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

I’m gonna guess the CIA is funding both sides.


2 posted on 03/26/2025 9:41:56 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: RandFan

The good news is that we’ve retaken Khartoum. The bad news is that we now hold Khartoum.


3 posted on 03/26/2025 9:48:24 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: RandFan

The old saying, today we take Khartoum, tomorrow the world.


4 posted on 03/26/2025 9:49:23 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: gundog

That is a good 1


5 posted on 03/26/2025 9:56:38 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: PGR88

So you’re saying it’s pay-per-view?


6 posted on 03/26/2025 10:00:21 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: RandFan

There’s a home for batchy airmen
Down in sunny Sudan
The airmen are all batchy and so’s the bloody Old Man
There’s bags and bags of bulls**t
And saluting in the square
And when you’re not saluting
You’re up in the flaming air!

Oh, we’re leaving Khartoum
By the light of the moon
We’re sailing by night and by day
Oh, we can’t stand the heat
We’ve got nothing to eat
We’ve thrown all our rations away!

So - sail on, Somersetshire
The skipper looks on her with pride
He’d have a blue fit
If he saw any s**t
On the side of the Somersetshire!

This is my story, this is my song
I’ve been in this air force too bloody long
So God bless the Rodney, Revenge and Renown
But we can’t say the Hood ‘cause the bastard’s gone down!

J**gered-I, whadya say?
I’ll bash all the SPs that come down our way!

WWII RAF song. They should’ve never given it back.

CC


7 posted on 03/26/2025 10:05:16 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: RandFan

BTTT


8 posted on 03/26/2025 10:25:23 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: RandFan

Did they find Charleton Heston?


9 posted on 03/26/2025 10:49:06 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: PGR88

“I’m gonna guess the CIA is funding both sides.”

And selling weapons to both?


10 posted on 03/26/2025 11:54:42 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: PGR88

Is this the place we built a massive base in and then it was overtaken by rebels? Or was that Niger?


11 posted on 03/27/2025 1:43:18 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: PGR88
Wrong. It’s Russia that has been arming both sides.

Sudan war: Russia hedges bets by aiding both sides in conflict

Now what do you have to say?
12 posted on 03/27/2025 1:59:38 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: frank ballenger

I thought it was a racehorse missing a head


13 posted on 03/27/2025 2:24:46 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: Apparatchik

Middle East Eye has reported extensively on the routes used by the UAE to keep the RSF supplied. Those routes remain intact and the US recently alluded, for the first time in public, to having spoken to Emirati officials about their support for the paramilitary.

How the UAE kept the Sudan war raging
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“We do know that both sides are receiving support, both with weapons and other support to fuel their efforts to continue to destroy Sudan. And yes, we have engaged with parties on that, including with our colleagues from the UAE,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said on 29 April.

According to al-Sharq, a US security delegation arrived in Port Sudan on Sunday to hold a round of joint discussions with army-aligned state officials.

Sources close to the Sudanese army told MEE that ceasefire talks brokered by the US and Saudi Arabia are scheduled to begin again in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah on 15 May.

Details of Iranian support for the Sudanese Armed Forces have emerged in the last couple of months. According to Africa Confidential, Iran’s drones, notably the Mohajer-4, Mohajer-6, and Ababil, have been operating since January from the SAF’s Wadi Saydna air force base, north of Khartoum.

Kholood Khair, a Sudanese analyst and founder of Confluence Advisory, agreed that Russia was “countering Ukraine” and filling a vacuum left by the US.

“Russia, the UAE and Israel play both sides, they don’t pick favourites,” Khair said. “The timing is because the Ukrainians were there not so long ago but the policy has always been the same, which is that the Kremlin backs Burhan and the Wagner Group, which is an arm of course of Russian foreign policy, backs the RSF,” she told MEE.

“That way they have a horse in the race no matter how this shakes out.”

Everyone has their fingers in the pie.


14 posted on 03/27/2025 3:36:53 AM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: RandFan

15 posted on 03/27/2025 4:36:06 AM PDT by DFG
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To: RandFan; hardspunned

How many people have died in the latest round of fighting in Sudan?
ChatGPT said:

​As of March 27, 2025, the conflict in Sudan has resulted in a significant loss of life. The war, which began in April 2023 between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has led to the deaths of at least 150,000 people, according to U.S. estimates.

******

No word from hardspunned, as three times as many Sudanese die as have gazans. I guess he only shifts his lazy self when Jews are involved.


16 posted on 03/27/2025 6:25:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Islam’s Strategy is Effective: Out-breed and murder everyone else. What to do?)
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To: gundog

First we take Manhattan.

Then we take Berlin.

L


17 posted on 03/27/2025 6:53:06 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: RandFan

RSF (Rapid Support Forces) is the current name, for what used to be called the Jangjaweed Militia, which committed a program of mass atrocities against the non-muslim populations in Sudan’s Darfur region, in the service of the former Government of terrorist supporter President Omar Bashir - including widespread enslavement.

The Sudanese Army, overthrew Bashir in a 2019 coup. They still hold him in custody, facing a potential death sentence, while the ICC wants him to face genocide charges. The Sudanese Army has offered Russia Naval basing rights on the Red Sea (potential replacement for Tartus in Syria), but facilities would have to be built mostly from scratch.


18 posted on 03/27/2025 12:47:20 PM PDT by BeauBo
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