One year of war in Sudan
On the 15 th of April 2023 a new war broke out in Sudan. Sudan’s largest paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), initiated attacks against their supposed allies in the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in nearly every major city across Sudan in what appeared to be some sort of an attempted coup. What started with clashes between former allies as part of a personal power struggle has turned into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. One year and thousands of deaths into the war there is no military end in sight, and the world’s traditional peacemaker countries are conspicuously absent in talks. The leader of the RSF is a man named Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, usually known by his nickname “Hemedti”. He had been the second in command in Sudan’s transitional sovereignty council led by his friend and close ally Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. The relationship between these two men is central in Sudanese politics, and the breakdown in their relations is what caused one of the worst ongoi...