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(05-05-2023, 10:47 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: The influence of outside players has loomed over events in Sudan since the overthrow of former leader Omar al-Bashir during a popular uprising four years ago.
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Wagner mercenary force have various commercial and military ties to Sudan, they denies no involvement in current conflict in the country.
Its founder, Yevgeny Prighozin - who has close links to President Vladimir Putin - has said that "not a single Wagner PMC [private military company] fighter has been present in Sudan" for over 2-years.
Putin say no evidence Russian mercenaries are currently inside the country. But there is evidence of Wagner's previous activities in Sudan, and Mr Prighozin's operations in the country have been targeted by both US and EU sanctions.
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In 2017, Sudan's then President Omar al-Bashir signed a series of deals with the Russian government during a visit to Moscow.
Included an agreement for Russia to set up a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
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ANALYSIS | Sudan: The longer the conflict lasts, the higher the risk of a regional war. Smoke billows during fighting in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Persistent fighting between Sudan's rival generals undermined efforts to firm up a truce, as a senior UN official arrived for talks on providing relief to millions of trapped civilians.
Sudan’s bumpy transition to democracy has come to a complete halt. The country now faces the worst conflict in its history as a full-blown civil war – with external entanglements – looms.
READ | EXPLAINER: Sudan's conflict - Who's backing the rival commanders?
The Sudanese armed forces and a paramilitary force known as the Rapid Support Forces have declared war against each other, bringing the country to its knees. The main protagonists are two generals: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who leads the armed forces, and Mohamad Hamdan Daglo (known as Hemedti) of the Rapid Support Forces.
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(10-05-2023, 03:48 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: ANALYSIS | Sudan: The longer the conflict lasts, the higher the risk of a regional war. Smoke billows during fighting in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Persistent fighting between Sudan's rival generals undermined efforts to firm up a truce, as a senior UN official arrived for talks on providing relief to millions of trapped civilians.
Sudan’s bumpy transition to democracy has come to a complete halt. The country now faces the worst conflict in its history as a full-blown civil war – with external entanglements – looms.
READ | EXPLAINER: Sudan's conflict - Who's backing the rival commanders?
The Sudanese armed forces and a paramilitary force known as the Rapid Support Forces have declared war against each other, bringing the country to its knees. The main protagonists are two generals: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who leads the armed forces, and Mohamad Hamdan Daglo (known as Hemedti) of the Rapid Support Forces.
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Regional powers and neighbours have lined up behind either of the two generals – or in some cases both. Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been backing al-Burhan. For their part.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and General Khalifa Haftar of Libya have supported the Rapid Support Forces.
There is a real possibility that regional and international actors will be arming different sides as they pursue their own, often competing interests.
Regional and international actors are key in enabling – or preventing – the development of the crisis into a protracted civil war with regional dimensions.
The best chance of halting Sudan’s slide into civil war lies in a united front of Western and regional powers, with Sudanese civil society groups putting pressure on the warring generals for a permanent ceasefire. And a return to a civilian-led transition.
But as time goes by, many despair that Sudan will soon reach the point of no return.
Egypt had a long history of meddling in Sudan’s affairs. This has included supporting various military govts, as well as containing the Islamist resurgence in the 1990s. In 2019, when al-Bashir was deposed, Egypt supported al-Burhan in the transition. It being replaced by a civilian democratic govt. It feared that this would inspire Egyptians to do the same.
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(10-05-2023, 12:06 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Sudanese war displaced double to more than 700,000: UN
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The head of the army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, swiftly found air power and artillery alone could not stop his rival's men, who were able to storm into Burhan's residence deep within army headquarters in the first hours of the conflict that erupted on April 15, a total of ten sources, from both sides of the conflict, told Reuters.
Burhan, the de facto head of state, himself picked up an AK-47 rifle and opened fire before his security pulled him to safety, one of his bodyguards told Reuters, in previously unreported details of how close he came to being toppled, or killed, in those first days.
More than 30 of his guards died in the ensuing battle, before the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters retreated from the residence in the capital, said the bodyguard, who asked not to be named.
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