RSF chief admits withdrawal from Sudan capital

CAIRO: The head of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) admitted three days after fighters on Sunday that the group had withdrawn from the capital Khartoum which rival army forces have retaken.

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The comment from RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo came three days after the group said there would be "no retreat and no surrender" and that its forces had "repositioned," despite the army's declaration on Thursday that "the last pockets" of the RSF had been eliminated from Khartoum after nearly two years of war.

"I confirm to you that we have indeed left Khartoum, but... we will return with even stronger determination," Daglo said in the speech posted on social media. The war has created what the United Nations describes as the world's worst hunger and displacement crises.