KHARTOUM: Sudanese army forces broke Tuesday a paramilitary siege on the South Kordofan state capital Kadugli, two army sources told AFP.
“Our forces have entered Kadugli and lifted the siege,” one said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
Kadugli, where the United Nations confirmed a famine last year, has been besieged for much of the nearly three-year war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which broke out in April 2023.
The siege has seen the city surrounded by RSF fighters and their local allies, a faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North led by Abdelaziz El-Hilu.
The allies had also besieged the neighboring town of Dilling, which the UN has said suffered similar famine conditions, before army troops broke through in late January.
