By Khalid Abdelaziz, Jana Choukeir and Nafisa Eltahir DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) -The Sudanese army seized full control of the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday, it said in a statement, in what would be a major gain in a two-year-old conflict with a rival armed group that has threatened to partition the country.

Sudan’s military has consolidated its grip on Khartoum, retaking more key government buildings a day after it gained control of the capital's Republican Palace from a notorious paramilitary group.

Sudan's army on Saturday said it had recaptured the country's central bank, state intelligence headquarters and national museum from paramilitary forces as fighting between the two groups continues