How Sudan’s forgotten war is being fought

As satellite images reveal, the gruelling battle for Khartoum is being waged with little care for civilians, write John Pollock and Damien Symon.

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The fighting that erupted in Sudan on April 15 between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces continues unabated.

The conflict represents a power struggle between two men who were once allies: Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, who is the leader of the RSF, a battle-hardened paramilitary force with origins in the genocidaire Janjaweed of the Darfur conflict, and the leader of Sudan’s military junta, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

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