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Sudan’s RSF claims it has captured a key city in the southeast

Fighters ride in the back of a pick-up truck mounted with a turret in the East Nile district of greater Khartoum [File: RSF via AFP]

Paramilitary forces battling Sudan’s army for more than a year say they have captured a key state capital in the war-torn country’s southeast.

“We have liberated the 17th Infantry Division from Singa [the capital of Sennar state],” the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on X on Saturday.

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