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In October 2025, RSF forces captured El Fasher, Darfur’s capital, making international headlines. These events reveal how Sudan’s latest war stems from old patterns: regional neglect, ethnic violence, and power struggles within the military elite.

💬 "The RSF is one ethnic group. They're called the Rizeigat and they are southern Darfuri Arabs who are semi-nomadic camel-herders. The Rizeigat want to kill all of the [non-Arab] peoples which are the Fur, the Zaghawa, the Masalit [...] They kill men and boys and rape women.” – Nathaniel Raymond

Third, after Bashir’s fall, the army and RSF turned on each other. In 2023, the RSF launched a surprise attack to seize power. Neither side stood for the ideals of the revolution: both fought for their own control, with the RSF continuing the genocide in Darfur.

Raymond points to three key factors behind Sudan’s civil war. First, in 2018, a broad student-led revolution demanding civilian rule overthrew Omar al-Bashir and his party. Second, the army and RSF opposed the revolution, blocking a real democratic transition.

The RSF grew from the Janjaweed, the militia behind mass killings in Darfur under former dictator al-Bashir. Today, the RSF and allied groups drive much of the ongoing violence, which Nathaniel Raymond, head of Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale, described as “the final stage of genocide in Darfur.”

Both sides have committed atrocities, and neither is fully legitimate. The Sudanese Armed Forces report directly to General al-Burhan, who seized power in a 2021 coup after the 2019 revolution, when the military had promised to transfer authority to a civilian government.

A new civil war broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army, led by General al-Burhan, and the paramilitary RSF, commanded by Hemedti. The two generals had once been allies, staging a military coup together before turning their guns on each other.

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