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Khartoum, Sudan – 13 August 2025
1. Various tracking shots of Khartoum international airport
2. Various of damaged planes
3. Ibrahim Jaber, Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council member, and officials arriving to Khartoum international airport
4. Various of Jaber and officials touring inside departure hall, while workers on duty
5. People gathering inside the hall
6. Jaber and official walking outside the hall
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Jaber, Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council member:
“The airport runway has been completed and is ready; what remains are the terminals. The arrival hall, including work on utilities like electricity and water, is still under construction, but significant progress has been made.”
8. People outside
8. Various departure hall, people working
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Jaber, Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council member:
“God willing, that soon our planes will land and Sudanese people will return, especially after a long absence from their homeland. This will be a lifeline connecting those who were displaced or forced to migrate with those who remained in Sudan. At the very least, a person will be able to see their home and workplace again. As a state, we will also be able to receive here all the countries that have representation with us, and the movement of the state will continue”
10. Various departure hall, people working
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Jaber, Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council member:
“The budget here in Sudan is a war budget, but there are priorities. We look at which areas we can spend on that will provide services to the citizens, and this is the most important thing. That’s why it can be noticed that all the committee’s work focuses on preparing service facilities — whether hospitals, electricity, water, or equipping the airport to enable aircraft operations at a reasonable level and to receive people. So, the entire budget is a war budget, but the priority is given to what serves the Sudanese and the Sudanese people.“
12. Cars driven on Khartoum international airport runway
STORYLINE:
Closed for more than two years, Khartoum International Airport inched closer towards a reopening with a newly completed runway.
Sudan’s army had recaptured the international airport in March, and the military chief flew back to the capital for the first time.
On Thursday, a member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council Ibrahim Jaber, conducted an inspection tour to review the progress of reconstruction work after the completion of the airport runway.
Jaber said "significant progress" has been made, but terminals, arrival halls and basic services such as electricity and water remain in need of repair.
The civil war erupted in April 2023 in Khartoum before spreading across the country.
The fighting between the Sudanese military, its allies, and its rival paramilitary the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed over 40,000 people.
Military control of the airport, along with calm in Khartoum, could allow aid groups to fly more supplies into the country, where fighting displaced as many as 12 million and pushed many to the brink of famine
However, seizing the capital doesn’t end the conflict, as the RSF still controls parts of the vast western Darfur region, where allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity are being investigated.
AP video by Hazem Hassan
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