CAIRO: A commercial flight landed in the Sudanese capital on Sunday for the second time since a devastating war broke out in the northeastern African country nearly three years ago.
The domestic flight, operated by the national flag carrier SudanAir, landed at the Khartoum International Airport on Sunday afternoon, according to the SUNA news agency.
The flight took off on Sunday morning from the eastern Red Sea city of Port Sudan, which had served as an interim seat for the government until the administration moved back to Khartoum earlier this year, SUNA said.
The reopening of the Khartoum International Airport was a crucial step in the government’s efforts to normalize life in the capital, which has been wrecked during the ongoing war between the military and the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Sunday’s flight was the second commercial flight to arrive in Khartoum since a flight operated by the privately owned Badr Airlines landed at the airport in October last year. At the time, the RSF launched drones at the airport to disrupt the government’s efforts to reopen the facility. The military retook Khartoum from the RSF earlier last year.
