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Zorro

(17,047 posts)
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 07:27 PM Sunday

Sudan's Military Sweeps Across Capital, Hoping to Turn the War

Source: New York Times

At the battle-scarred presidential palace in the heart of Sudan’s shattered capital, soldiers gathered under a chandelier on Sunday afternoon, rifles and rocket launchers slung over their shoulders, listening to their orders.

Then they trooped out, down a red carpet that once welcomed foreign dignitaries, and into the deserted center of the city on a mission to flush out the last pockets of resistance from the paramilitary fighters with whom they have been clashing for two years.

Since Sudan’s military captured the presidential palace on Friday, in a fierce battle that left hundreds dead, it has taken control of most of central Khartoum, marking a momentous change of fortunes that is likely to change the course of Sudan’s ruinous civil war.

By Sunday, the military had seized the Central Bank, the headquarters of the national intelligence service and the towering Corinthia Hotel along the Nile.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/world/africa/sudan-civil-war-khartoum.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6E4.Au1I.0osdtDbYymX1&smid=url-share

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Sudan's Military Sweeps Across Capital, Hoping to Turn the War (Original Post) Zorro Sunday OP
So far from the joy that Sudan experienced when Al-Bashir fell. maxsolomon Monday #1
When I hear "Khartoum" I flash to Charlton Heston as British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon c.1883 EX500rider Monday #2

maxsolomon

(36,112 posts)
1. So far from the joy that Sudan experienced when Al-Bashir fell.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:46 PM
Monday

Hard to imagine it will ever get better under a victorious Sudanese military.

EX500rider

(11,762 posts)
2. When I hear "Khartoum" I flash to Charlton Heston as British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon c.1883
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 04:49 PM
Monday


Hopefully this current civil war will end soon for the civilians sake.
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