Sudan's military leader, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, made a landmark return to the presidential palace in Khartoum on Wednesday, only hours after the army regained control of the area and recaptured the city's airport. In a turning point in the war, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have wrested near-complete control of Sudan’s capital city from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Wednesday.

Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council, the country's de facto government, announced late afternoon on Wednesday that army’s commander-in-chief — Gen Burhan, who also heads the sovereignty council — arrived to Khartoum.

Images released by the SAF show Burhan at the presidential palace in central Khartoum. This marks Burhan's first time in the palace in almost two years. The RSF has held the presidential palace, along with most of Khartoum, since very early on in the war between the SAF and the paramilitary group, which broke out in April of 2023.

In a broadcast that aired Wednesday on Sudan state television, Burhan said, “Khartoum is free; it’s done.”

رئيس مجلس السيادة القائد العام يتفقد القوات بمطار الخرطوم ويزور القصر الجمهوري

تفقد السيد رئيس مجلس السيادة........

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