🧵RSF propaganda Networks are having some success in pushing a narrative that the Army’s victory at #Sudan Broadcasting Studios is purely symbolic. In this thread I’m going to explain why that is nonsense.
Firstly the liberation of the Broadcasting studios did not happen in isolation. In the space of two month as shown by these two progress maps the Army had advanced massively in to Old (central) Omdurman.
Firstly the liberation of the Broadcasting studios did not happen in isolation. In the space of two month as shown by these two progress maps the Army had advanced massively in to Old (central) Omdurman.
First liberating Souq Omdurman, which is the largest Market in the Country and strategically sits at the centre of Omdurman. More importantly for the Army is that Souq Omdurman separated its main Army infantry force (The Karari Army) from the Engineering Corps base which the RSF
had been besieging from the start of fighting. The liberation of the market which was packed with RSF sniper positions allowed the two Army forces to meet. This is footage from when the two Army forces meet on Al Arda street breaking the siege on the Engineering Corps
The breaking of the siege on Engineering Corps also meant that the merciless siege that the RSF was also imposing on Al Fetihab neighbourhood (a settlement that predates the city of Omdurman) was broken. Once the Army had ended the siege a unified Omdurman Army force consisting
of soldiers from the Karari Army and the Engineering Corps moved to systematically force the militia out of Old (Central) Omdurman. A significant moment was the taking of the Historic Omdurman City Council building which beyond its symbolic value as the landmark for Omdurman is
Of extreme strategic importance from a military operations point of view; guarding the eastern end of Al Arda street the only remaining supply Artery the militia had into Omdurman proper.
By last week the last remaining pocket of control for the RSF in Old Omdurman was Al Mulazmeen neighbourhood which is home to the expansive Broadcasting studios site. The value of the broadcasting studios is far beyond symbolism. The Studios are one of the most valuable pieces of
Sudanese State infrastructure. It is precisely its value that the RSF chose to make the Broadcasting Studios there operations base HQ in Omdurman at the Start of the war. The militia’s actual bases in Khartoum State Sudan’s Airforce as well as Artillery levelled to the ground in
the first days of the war. So the militia chose locations of high economic or cultural value to HQ itself because they knew they’d be safe there from heavy bombing by the Sudanese Army. The RSF didn’t just lose a symbolic piece of infrastructure they lost their principle base in
Omdurman! And not only that the way they lost it was catastrophic for the militia.The militia only decided to attempt to withdraw after the Army had managed to impose a full siege on them. Leaving hurriedly and abandoning basements full of Arms even the extremely expensive Kornet
ATGM systems (that the UAE provided them) that use missiles that alone cost $26,000 per unit were abandoned as if they were worthless junk.
The RSF attempted to withdraw in one large convoy consisting of their Land Cruiser technical vehicles. However, they didn’t make it far, the Army had withdrawn from its forward positions to lure the withdrawing RSF force in to a carefully planned kill box. Such was the scale of
the RSF losses that the Pro Army accounts that habitually like to exaggerate Army victories and RSF losses ended up significantly under estimating the level of destruction that was inflicted on the RSF force. At least 50 of the RSF technical fighting vehicles were destroyed or
captured. A significant number of RSF militiamen were also captured.
The capturing of the RSF operations HQ in Omdurman will also have significant implications for the Army’s operations in to Khartoum North and Khartoum Proper. Having a heavily armed RSF force hunkered down in Old (Central) Omdurman significantly limited how much forces from the
Northern Omdurman Military district or the Engineering Corps could be committed to support operations in Khartoum and Khartoum North given the real risk of a rear guard attack from the militia.
The Army has indeed captured some purely symbolic locations in Omdurman such as the Mahadi’s tomb. (A Tomb that the British raised to the ground after their reconquest of Sudan only for it to be rebuilt after independence) but the Broadcasting Studios is more than a symbolic
victory it is a massive strategic loss that will ultimately lead to the full defeat of the RSF in Khartoum State (don’t ask me for a time scale).
End of thread.
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