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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

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Africa

Sudan’s civilians urgently need protection: the options for international peacekeeping

    By Jenna Russo, City University of New York   In September 2024, the United Nations’ independent fact-finding mission to Sudan issued its first report. Citing grave human rights violations amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the report called for the immediate deployment of an independent and impartial force to protect civilians. Nearly 18 months after the outbreak of fighting, the humanitarian situation in Sudan has become […]

todaySeptember 18, 2024 6

Africa

Sudan is the world’s worst modern war – what has happened and what it’ll take to rebuild

  By Kagure Gacheche, The Conversation   Sudan’s war has been raging since April 2023. The country was on a bumpy road to democracy after mass uprisings in 2019 ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. This all came to a halt when troops from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary force, attacked a military airstrip in the early hours of 15 April 2023. In the months since, fighting between the […]

todaySeptember 2, 2024 25

Africa

How militia groups capture states and ruin countries: the case of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces

      By Federico Manfredi Firmian, Sciences Po     The rise of Sudan’s most notorious paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, shows how armed groups can infiltrate state institutions – often with disastrous results for society. Sudan’s central government created the Rapid Support Forces in 2013 as dictator Omar al-Bashir’s private protection detail. The group has now become a predator seeking to gain control of Sudan. Sudan’s war […]

todayJuly 18, 2024 7

Africa

Sudan Armed Forces are on a path to self-destruction – risking state collapse

    By Harry Verhoeven, Columbia University   It is now 10 months since the outbreak of civil war in Sudan in April 2023, pitting the Sudan Armed Forces against the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group. The war, which erupted after relations between the two wings of Sudan’s security apparatus broke down, rapidly spread beyond the capital, Khartoum. More recently, the Sudan Armed Forces have suffered numerous setbacks […]

todayFebruary 20, 2024 12

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