The Sudanese military says rebels have captured the key eastern city

The Sudanese  military says rebels have captured the key eastern  city.
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Crowds in Port Sudan celebrate the  announced capture of Wad Madani by the Sudanese  military
Sudan's army says it has captured a key  town in the  east of the country, one of its biggest gains in  a nearly two-year war against rebel  forces.
Footage on social media showed people celebrating in the streets as army soldiers entered the  town of Wad  Madani.
The head of the Rapid Support Forces  (RSF) paramilitary group, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti,  admitted defeat in an audio  message.
His admission was angry and  detached, attributing the  loss to  military air superiority and  the use of Iranian-made  drones.
But he vowed to continue  the fight until victory, even if it  takes another 20  years. Wad Madani is the capital of Al  Jazeera State, 140 km south of the country's capital,  Khartoum.
Wad Madani  is a strategic crossroads, connecting several states  via major supply  routes. It is also the closest major  city to  Khartoum.
Sudan has been ravaged by war since April 2023, when fighting broke out between the RSF and the Sudanese  army.
The RSF continues to control  almost all of Sudan's western Darfur region, as well as  a significant  part of the country's south. Meanwhile, the army controls the north and  east of the country, as well as parts of  Khartoum.
The war  left tens of thousands  dead. And in what the United Nations has called one of the  "world's biggest displacement  crises," some nine million people have been forced to  leave their  homes.
The country is also  mired in famine, with 24.6 million people - about half the population - in urgent need of food aid, experts  say.
Earlier this month, the  United States sanctioned the  head of RSF after  accusing the group of committing  genocide. Authorities said he was being punished for his role in "systematic" atrocities against the Sudanese people during the 20-month conflict.

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