Sudani Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Bran on Saturday vowed that his soldiers would fight until the paramilitary rapid support force (RSF) abandons his weapons.
At its first television address since the army resumed the capital Khartum this week, Burhan said that the end of the almost two years of the devastating battle is possible “if this militia leaves its arms”.
He denied any conversation with paramilitary, promising to hunt under the last RSF fighters.
Burhan said, “We will neither forgive, nor compromise, nor negotiate, nor talk,” saying that the victory will be fulfilled only when “the last rebel has been erased from the last corner of Sudan”.
Burhan’s speech came a few days later when he entered the President’s palace victorious, which was under RSF control after the war about two years ago.
Getting out of a military aircraft, he succumbed to kissing the ground and extended his fist towards the sky before marching through the palace gates.
The army, which suffered heavy losses for 18 months, launched a fierce component in November last year, pushed towards the capital via Central Sudan.
Last week, in a decisive blitz in Khartum, the army rectified the President’s Mahal, Airport and other strategic sites.
The RSF is forced to pull back, although its leaders do not “do not surrender”.
A few hours after Burhan’s back to the President’s palace, RSF announced a “military alliance” with a faction of rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, which controls parts of South Cordofain and Blue Nile states in the south.
Before signing a political charter with the RSF last month for the establishment of the rival government, the SPLM-N collided with both sides.
On Thursday evening, witnesses at the Blue Nile State Capital Damazin reported that both its airport and nearby Rogers Dam came under the drone attack by paramilitary and their colleagues for the first time in the war.
The army later said that it had shot the RSF drone.
The war destroyed Sudan, killing tens of thousands and displaced more than 12 million.
The country is now effectively divided into two, the army has captured North and East, while RSF controls most of Darfur in the west and south.
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