Sudan's regular army drove away the rebels in the paramilitary RSF from the country's capital area in May. During his first visit to Khartum in two years, Idris promised mass renovations as at least some of the millions of inhabitants who fled the war are expected to return to the city.
Khartum will return as a proud national capital, he said according to Sudan's state news agency.
The civil war between Sudan's army and RSF began in Khartum in April 2023. Thousands of people are estimated to have been killed in the city and 3–5 million are said to have fled, according to the UN.
But the reconstruction of the country is expected to be a gigantic project where the costs are estimated to be 700 billion dollars, of which about half of the sum is for Khartum alone.
The civil war has so far killed tens of thousands of people, displaced 13 million and created what the UN has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
