The Sudanese army seized full control of the presidential palace in central Khartoum on Friday (March 21), it said in a statement. That would be a major gain in a two-year-old conflict with a rival armed group that has threatened to partition the country.

Extraordinary scenes of jubilant soldiers waving flags at Khartoum's presidential palace have suggested this could be a turning point in Sudan's bitter two-year civil war. But RSF militia are fighting back and the future remains unpredictable.

Sudan’s army has reclaimed the Presidential Palace in the capital, Khartoum, in a significant victory over a rampaging militia that controls swaths of the war-torn country.