With Sudan's warring generals constantly frustrating international peace efforts and abusing truces, Sudanese diaspora warns a long drawn-out war in the North African country is inevitable
Fighting broke out on April 15 after dispute over plans for the RSF to be integrated into the main army. / Photo: ReutersEver since they began to point their guns at each other, Sudan's warring generals have constantly frustrated international efforts — particularly led by Saudi Arabia, US, African Union and the UN — to end nearly three months of bloodshed in the North African country.
Both sides have accused each other of taking advantage of the truces to mobilise forces in a conflict that has left thousands of people dead, uprooted millions, taken an ethnic dimension in the western Darfur region, and created a refugee and economic crisis for Sudan's neighbours. Both generals, Burhan and Dagalo, have been sharing power since October 2021 when the military dismissed PM Abdalla Hamdok's transitional government and declared a state of emergency in a move decried by political forces as a"coup."
The paramilitary RSF grew out of the Janjaweed, and rights groups say forces under his command used many of the militia's brutal tactics. Sudan's transitional period, which started in August 2019 after the ouster of Bashir, had been scheduled to end with elections in early 2024. "The revolution started as a peaceful revolution. It called for transition and political change peacefully. A lot of young people lost their lives. They were confronted by bullets from both RSF and the main Sudanese army. And now, we have the same guys killing each other," Maisun Badawi, a World Bank consultant, toldBadawi, a Sudanese American, was in Khartoum when guns roared in the streets of Sudan's capital city.
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