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Sudan crisis: Since April 2023, the fighting has killed more than 150,000 people and forced 14.6 million people to flee their homes. Today, more than half of Sudan's 48 million population faces starvation.

Democracy was established in the African country Sudan only five years ago in July 2019. With the establishment of democracy, the people there had hoped that now their poverty will be eradicated and their standard of living will change. But all their hopes were dashed when, just four years later, in April 2023, the country fell prey to a violent civil war.

The country’s army, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are locked in a power struggle in Sudan that has created the world’s worst displacement crisis and largest humanitarian crisis. Since April 2023, the fighting has killed more than 150,000 people and forced 14.6 million people to flee their homes. Today, more than half of Sudan’s 48 million population faces starvation.

In the civil war going on in Sudan, RSF had once become stronger than the Sudanese army. It had also captured the Presidential Palace ‘Republican Palace’ in the capital Khartoum and Khartoum Airport. But this month the Sudanese army has gained a big lead. Last Friday, after almost two years of fighting, the army regained control of the Presidential Palace.

The army also released a video of this in which it can be seen that the Presidential Palace has turned into ruins due to continuous shelling. Sudan’s Information Minister Khalid al-Aiser said in a post on the social platform X about the capture of the Presidential Palace that the army has again captured the palace.

Although the army has liberated the capital Khartoum, many areas of the country are still under the control of the RSF. Darfur in western Sudan and south-western Sudan are still under the control of the RSF.

Amgad Farid Eltayeb, of Fikra for Studies and Development in Cairo, told Al Jazeera that the army’s gain does not mean the conflict is over.