Celebrations as flight carries dozens of passengers from Port Sudan to Sudanese capital.
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The worldwide airport in Khartoum has obtained its first scheduled industrial flight in additional than two years because the Sudanese authorities continues to claim its management over Sudan’s capital metropolis after years of fighting.
The Sudan Airways flight travelled to Khartoum from the Purple Sea metropolis of Port Sudan on Sunday, carrying dozens of passengers.
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Reporting from close to the runway the place the flight had landed, Al Jazeera’s Taher Almardi described scenes of jubilation following the arrival of the aircraft.
He mentioned the reopening of the airport will assist join the capital to different areas in Sudan, with officers saying the power is now able to welcome as many as 4 flights each day.
Sudan Airways mentioned in an announcement that the flight, which was introduced on Saturday with ticket costs beginning at $50, “displays the return of spirit and the continuation of the connection between the sons of the nation”.
The Sudanese navy introduced regaining full control of the capital from its rival, the Speedy Assist Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, in March of final yr.
Final month, Sudan’s army-aligned authorities moved the government’s headquarters again to Khartoum from their wartime capital of Port Sudan, which has additionally housed the nation’s worldwide airport because the early days of the conflict that started in April 2023.
Khartoum Worldwide Airport has come beneath repeated assaults, together with an RSF drone assault in October that Sudanese officers mentioned was intercepted.
On October 22, the airport mentioned it had obtained a Badr Airways flight, which was not pre-announced. However no additional operations of business flights resumed till Sunday.
The conflict began as two prime generals – Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the chief of the navy, and Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, the RSF chief – and their forces clashed for energy and management over Sudan’s sources.
The combating has ravaged cities and cities throughout Sudan, killing tens of 1000’s of individuals and forcing tens of millions of others from their houses.
Violence continues to rage in central and western Sudan, significantly in Darfur, the place the conflict has led to mass displacement and a humanitarian disaster.
“In Darfur right now, reaching a single little one can take days of negotiation, safety clearances, and journey throughout sand roads beneath shifting frontlines,” Eva Hinds, spokesperson for the United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF), mentioned in an announcement on Friday.
“Nothing about this disaster is easy: each motion is hard-won, each supply fragile.”
