The Sudanese army recaptured the presidential palace in the capital, Khartoum, from the Rapid Support Forces on Friday, dealing a major blow to the paramilitaries who responded with deadly drone attacks.
State television broadcast scenes of fighters celebrating in the palace, before three of its journalists and a number of army personnel were killed in a drone strike, an army source reported.
They were “covering the army retaking the Republican Palace” when an RSF one-way attack drone struck the complex, the source said on condition of anonymity. Information Minister Khalid al-Aiser said a state television producer, video journalist and driver were among the dead.
In a statement shared to Telegram, the RSF said it had launched a “lightning operation” around the palace which “killed more than 89 enemy personnel and…
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