Sudanese army troops and allied militiamen were rapidly advancing in the capital on Wednesday, engaging the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in street combat in residential areas once home to hundreds of thousands of citizens before the war broke out 21 months ago.

The Sudanese army said Thursday that it had retaken a key city in the southern state of North Kordofan from rival paramilitaries, who had held it since May 2023. In a statement, the army said troops had "cleansed" the city of Umm Rawaba of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

We lost everything in the war, but we did not lose our love for our city, Khartoum. If we had surrendered then and been afraid to film, we would have regretted it for the rest of our lives. I think the most beautiful thing is that we were a team of directors and partners,

“Pens from Exile” is a documentary film produced by Al-Taghyeer electronic newspaper, which reviews the conditions and lives of Sudanese journalists in Uganda, as they struggle to continue their media message in light of the challenges imposed on them by the reality of exile.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visited its strategic headquarters in central Khartoum on Sunday in his first appearance there since government forces claimed to have broken a months-long siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The Sudanese army said on Tuesday it had gained further ground in the battle for Khartoum, claiming control of key sites in the Bahri district, including areas in Shambat and Old Bahri. The army’s advances included the former Parachute Corps headquarters,

Meters From Andriivka,” Ukrainian director and journalist Mstyslav Chernov, whose previous film “ 20 Days in Mariupol ” won Best Documentary at the Oscars, once again captures unsettling images from the frontlines of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Khartoum is a poetic documentary that retraces the stories of five Sudanese refugees during the coup and outbreak of the civil war. The film, directed by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Tomeea Mohamed Ahmed and Phil Cox, is part of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Some 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan.

The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have engaged in fighting near al-Jili oil refinery, north of the capital Khartoum. The Sudanese army said it reached the vicinity of the strategically important refinery on Wednesday, following a multipronged offensive north of Khartoum, with reports of direct clashes with the RSF.

The Sudanese army has broken a siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of its command centre in central Khartoum, the army said on Friday, in what would be a major victory in the capital after nearly two years of war.

It has issued 32 unsealed arrest warrants. Those suspects range from Netanyahu and Putin to Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and Gamlet Guchmazov, accused of torture in the breakaway region of South Ossetia in Georgia.