Mission against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces would surpass army’s recapture of Khartoum State last year.The government-aligned Sudanese armed forces (SAF) are renewing efforts for an operation to retake the Kordofan and Darfur regions from the control of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as the civil war rages deep into its third year.Sudan’s army has been assessing the RSF’s capabilities and resources in readiness for launching the military operation with a large number of military formations fully prepared to launch an attack, the SAF said.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAny full-scale operation to liberate Kordofan in central Sudan and Darfur in the west would surpass the SAF’s recapture of Khartoum in March in terms of the planning that has taken place before the mission, the SAF said.Al Jazeera’s Hiba Moran, reporting from Khartoum, said, “What we have seen is the Sudanese army reorganize and redeploy troops in various part of the Kordofan region. We have also seen the Sudanese army retake control of territories in the Kordofan region as well as launch air strikes and drone strikes on several RSF positions in Darfur and Kordofan.”“And it looks like these are the preparations or the first steps of that offensive that the army has been speaking about in efforts to regain control of territories in Kordofan and Darfur,” she added.The SAF on Friday said it inflicted heavy losses on the RSF during a series of air and ground operations carried out in Darfur and Kordofan.In a statement, the mil …
