Sudan announces government’s return to Khartoum from wartime capital

Army-aligned government returns to the capital, which was quickly overrun by the RSF in the early days of war in 2023.

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Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris has announced the government’s return to Khartoum, after nearly three years of operating from its wartime capital of Port Sudan.

In the early days of the civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, the army-aligned government fled the capital, which was quickly overrun by rival troops.