Sudan Government Returns to Khartoum After 3-Year Exile
The Spin
Pro-government narrative
This marks a decisive step toward restoring order after the Sudan Armed Forces secured the capital and reopened basic state functions. The move signals tangible progress toward stabilization, with essential services gradually resuming and reconstruction beginning. While challenges remain, the army has reasserted sovereign control against fragmentation. The RSF continues systematic attacks on civilians and medical facilities across Sudan, committing clear and ongoing violations of international humanitarian law.
Government-critical narrative
This is a hollow PR stunt by an unelected regime seeking legitimacy through symbolism while the city lies in ruins. The regime's forces function less as a state institution than as a militarized proxy, documented for war crimes and indiscriminate violence. Using Turkish drones, they repeatedly struck civilian areas, markets and hospitals. Millions remain displaced, services barely exist, and the humanitarian catastrophe is driven primarily by the army's systematic assault on civilians and its total abdication of governing responsibility.
