US EditionSudan Government Returns to Khartoum After 3-Year Exile
Prime Minister Kamil Idris vows to improve electricity, water, healthcare, and education as the government returns to Khartoum after nearly three years, with 1.2 million residents already back, UN says.
- On Sunday, Sudan's Prime Minister Kamil Idris announced the government's return to Khartoum after nearly three years operating from Port Sudan.
- The government fled Khartoum in April 2023 and has pursued a gradual return after the Sudanese Armed Forces recaptured the city last March, with Port Sudan serving as the wartime base and main aid hub.
- UN figures show that between March and October about 1.2 million returned to Khartoum while basic services barely function and rehabilitation is estimated at $350m.
- The government pledged to begin reconstruction and Idris said, `Today, we return, and the Government of Hope returns to the national capital`, pledging to improve electricity, water, healthcare and education.
- Fighting continues across Darfur and Kordofan as the military reported destroying about 240 combat vehicles and over 100,000 fled el-Fasher after the RSF seized it on October 26 amid reports of mass atrocities and alleged UAE support.
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Sudan's government returns to capital after nearly 3 years of war
Sudan’s military-led government has returned to the country’s capital after nearly three years of operating from its wartime base in the eastern city of Port Sudan.Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris told reporters on Sunday that the “government of hope” was officially back in Khartoum and would begin efforts to improve services for the city’s beleaguered residents.The military was forced out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) when ci…
In Sudan, the government wants to return to the capital Khartoum.
While Sudan has spent this weekend the symbolic milestone of the 1,000 days of civil war, the Prime Minister announced on Sunday, 11 January, the official return of the government to the capital, Khartoum. Loyalist forces had been driven out by the paramilitaries of the Forces de soutien rapide (FSR) in April 2023 before regaining control of it after two years of fighting.
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