On Sunday, a senior Sudanese general visited a military zone north of Khartoum, as part of a large-scale operation to reclaim the city from competing paramilitary forces.
The army recently regained control of this strategically important area.
Major General Mohamed Abbas al-Labeeb, deputy director of the General Intelligence Service, accompanied Lieutenant General Yasser al-Atta, assistant to the army chief, during an inspection of troops and defenses in the Kadaru military zone.
This visit followed the army’s advance from Omdurman, crossing the Nile River into Khartoum and Bahri, where they merged with forces stationed in Kadaru.
General al-Atta addressed the troops, stating, “The army has inflicted heavy losses on the enemy on all fronts in recent days,” and noted that the conflict had expanded beyond the capital to include resistance in Darfur, North Kordofan, and the White Nile regions.
He also announced the arrival of new shipments of heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns in Port Sudan.
Despite the general’s reassurances, clashes continued on Sunday, though with reduced intensity.
Artillery exchanges were reported along Al-Maouna Street, a major thoroughfare in Bahri, as the army attempted to push south toward Shambat.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group battling the army, claimed to have repelled an army advance on Shambat, boasting of delivering “a crushing defeat” to government troops near the Khartoum oil refinery, located north of the capital.
However, local sources indicated that the army briefly retook the refinery area on Saturday before withdrawing.
In Halfaya, north of Bahri, residents reported that the army had conducted house-to-house searches and established control over the area. For safety, the army advised citizens to remain indoors.
Meanwhile, in Khartoum’s Al-Muqrin district, west of the city center, soldiers crossing the White Nile River from Omdurman encountered clashes and shelling.