Sudan’s senseless internecine conflict began when two generals had a falling out
Robert Rotberg is the founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School ’s program on intrastate conflict, a former senior fellow at CIGI and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation.– which has triggered the world’s most damaging and neglected humanitarian crisis – is being prolonged by intense personal antagonisms and the meddling of foreign states.
Despite repeated U.S. attempts to negotiate a ceasefire, the Sudanese Armed Forces continue to bomb Khartoum, which has normally served as the country’s capital, to attempt to oust the Rapid Support Forces , an irregular militia that now holds the city. Meanwhile, in the beleaguered country’s far west region of Darfur, the RSF has laid siege to El Fasher, a regional capital.
The SAF controls most of northern Sudan and the country’s entire Red Sea littoral, plus Port Sudan, which is being used as the de facto capital. That city is the terminus of a lengthy pipeline from South Sudan, which has major petroleum reserves and pays pumping fees. The RSF controls nearly all of southern and western Sudan , and Sennar State, the country’s breadbasket along the Blue Nile River.
Once joined, the battle unexpectedly showed that the tactics of the 100,000-strong RSF were effective, and it pushed the 150,000-strong SAF out of big parts of Africa’s third-largest country.
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