Sudan 's military on Friday retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion of rival paramilitary forces in the capital, after nearly two years of fighting.

Sudan's army and allied forces retook the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum on Friday, in a major and symbolically significant victory against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that had seized the Nile-side complex days after the war broke out two years ago.