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

Sudan's military announced Friday it had recaptured the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the historic seat of the country's government, marking its most significant victory yet in the ongoing conflict with the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Sudan’s military says it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion in the capital of rival paramilitary forces, after nearly two years of fighting