El Fasher Falls: Is Sudan's Partition Now Inevitable? – The Standard Newspaper
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R.S.F Seizes One Of Sudan’s Army’s Headquarters In El Fasher
In Western Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (R.S.F.) have seized the army’s headquarters in El Fasher. According to the New York Times, the R.S.F. said it seized the Sixth Division Headquarters of the Sudanese Army in El Fasher, which is the group’s last major barrier to controlling the western region of Darfur. The city of Darfur holds an estimated 260,000 people, with this capture by the R.S.F. leading to the withdrawal of both the Sudanese Arm…
Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces captured the city of El Fasher from the Sudanese Armed Forces after an 18-month siege. Who are the opposing forces and what do they want? And to what extent has the humanitarian crisis worsened in Sudan's “forgotten” and “unsolvable” war?
El Fasher Falls: Is Sudan's Partition Now Inevitable? – The Standard Newspaper
By Sheriff Bojang Jnr When the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the capital of North Darfur, they didn’t just win a city, they may have taken a decisive step towards reshaping Sudan. For nearly a year, El Fasher had stood as the last major stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their allied Darfuri militias, a fragile island of resistance in a sea of paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)-controlled territory. Long before its…
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