Sudan's army has made a series of vital battlefield gains since it launched a major offensive last week against its civil war opponent, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), taking an important bridge over the Nile and swiftly advancing elsewhere in the Sudanese capital.

Sudan’s army launched a major offensive to recapture the country’s capital from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The escalation comes despite US-led efforts to broker a ceasefire.

It appears to be the army's first major offensive to regain the capital since the war began last year.