More than two years into the Sudan’s civil war, the power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a powerful paramilitary group, continues unabated. The conflict erupted in April 2023, when a long-standing rivalry between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of the SAF and Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo of the RSF escalated into an open war in Khartoum. At the time, the dispute over the RSF’s integration into the national army quickly exploded into a nationwide conflict, collapsing state institutions and governance across the country.
