News brief

Sudanese government forces retake capital. Sudan’s military said on March 21 it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the rival paramilitary forces’ last heavily guarded bastion in the capital, after nearly two years of fighting. The fall of the palace – a compound along the Nile River that was the seat of government before the war erupted and is immortalized on Sudanese banknotes and postage stamps – marks another battlefield gain for Sudan’s steadily advancing military. However, it likely doesn’t mean the end of the war as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces holds territory in Sudan’s western Darfur region and elsewhere.

We reported in January how, despite war shutting down Sudan’s universities, its students refused to give up.