Sudan's paramilitary RSF chief says war with army is not over

Saudi Arabia chooses sides in Sudan's civil war

In the final days of Ramadan, before Mecca's Grand Mosque, Sudan's de facto president and army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan knelt in prayer beside Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Al-Burhan had arrived in the kingdom just two days after his troops dealt a significant blow to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), recapturing the capital Khartoum after two years of civil war. Missing from the frame was the United Arab Emirat…

While media attention is exclusively focused on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the recent fall of the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, into the hands of the army forces, briefly puts under the spotlight the hardships - and atrocities - of the civil war in the African country on the verge of the two years of the conflict. Khartoum’s takeover by the troops of General Al Burhan opens a new phase in a war that, in general terms, presents a balance of forc…

A burnt-out shell - BBC visits Sudan's capital after the army's victory

16 minutes agoShareSaveBarbara Plett UsherBBC News, KhartoumShareSaveBarbara Plett Usher / BBCThe battered heart of Khartoum lies eerily quiet now, after weeks of intense urban combat in the Sudanese capital.We entered the city just days after Sudan’s army recaptured it from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the culmination of a six-month offensive through the central part of the country.Once the commercial heart and seat of Sudan’s g…

This Country’s Paramilitary Is Almost as Big as Its Entire Military Force

Over the weekend, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a powerful paramilitary group, admitted to being pushed out of Khartoum, the country’s capital. This marks a turning point in Sudan’s current Civil War, which has been raging for the past two years between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary RSF. (These regional conflicts will escalate in the coming months.) Paramilitaries like the RSF are military organizations that operate …

Rapid Support Forces vows war with Sudanese army is not over

The paramilitary group’s commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo described its withdrawal from Khartoum as a tactical repositioning.

Sudan's RSF, Pushed Out of Khartoum, Says War Is Not Over

The leader of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces said Sunday that its war with the army was not over, even after the paramilitary group was driven out of the capital last week. Both sides refuse negotiations.