Sudan’s military says it has taken full control of Greater Khartoum. Brig. Gen. Nabil Abdullah, a spokesman for the Sudanese military, said forces retook the region that includes the capital city of Khartoum and its sister cities Omdurman and Khartoum North,

Hemedti cashed in on his newfound leverage with the Emiratis. In Darfur, he seized Jabal Amer, a mountain with rich seams of gold, and virtually all the mine’s product ended up in the U.A.E. According to Global Witness, an anti-corruption N.G.O., Hemedti used shell companies to funnel the profits from gold trading back to the R.S.F.

Drone attacks cut power across Khartoum and the surrounding state, authorities said on Thursday, as Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries pressed on with a campaign of long-distance attacks more than two years into their war with Sudan's army.

Sudan’s army chief has appointed the country’s first prime minister since it plunged into civil war two years ago and following months of steady advances by the military against its paramilitary rival.

Sudan army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan appointed Kamil al-Taib Idris as prime minister following the civil war.

The bespectacled, grey-bearded man ran out of the primary school in Khartoum's Amarat district, shaking with shock.

Government forces retook the capital city from rebel troops in April. Now comes the task of rebuilding what was once a bustling metropolis on the Nile.

It is the first time that Sudan has accused the Gulf state of direct military intervention in its civil war against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.