Khartoum airport reopened to traffic

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Wednesday said Khartoum International Airport has been reopened for local and international flights as an insurgency in an area adjacent to the airport has been put down.

The airport was closed from Tuesday evening to the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Sudanese president of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Lieutenant General Abdul Fatah Al Burhan, said the situation has now been fully brought under control and that life has been restored to normal.

“People can now lead their normal life,” Lt. Gen. Burhan told a short press briefing at his office at the Army Headquarters in Khartoum at which he appeared in full military fatigue with his military decorations, flanked by the Prime Minister and senior leaders of the December revolution.

A group of security elements affiliated to the Operations Department, a highly trained force, led an insurgency which the government described as a "rebellion".

They occupied and barricaded a number of areas near the airport, and with the heavy military build up, the authorities decided to close the airport to flights for security reasons.

-0- PANA MO/MA 15Jan2020