The paramilitary RSF forces have withdrawn from the capital, announces their leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
But we will return even more determined, he says in a recorded speech sent out on social media.
On Wednesday, the Sudanese army declared victory in Khartum, after intense fighting where they had advanced through the city and taken over key power centers, one by one.
Khartum is liberated, it's clear, said military chief Abd al-Fattah al-Burhan on state TV then.
Sudan's regular military has been at war with the RSF forces for almost two years. It broke out when a rift emerged within the country's ruling military junta – which had taken power from the former dictator Omar al-Bashir – and leading generals ended up on opposite sides.
On one side stands General Abd al-Fattah al-Burhan, who commands the army, and on the other his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who leads the so-called RSF militia.
The country has in practice been divided: the army controls areas in the north and east, and the RSF with coordinated groups controls areas in the west and south. Even Khartum has been divided between the sides.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war. More than 14 million people have been driven into flight.
