What Is Happening In Sudan?

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Humanitarian Crisis 

Su💮dan is facing a severe humanitarian crisis, described as one of the worst in🎃 recent history.

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Khartoum In Ruins

Khartoum, the capital city, has been reduced to a charred battleground due to a feud between ღtwo generals.

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Civil War Erupts

The feud escalated into a civil war in April 2023, involving the government’s Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Supp෴ort Forces (RSF).

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Death Toll 

The civil war has 𝓀resulted in at least 15,500 deaths so far according to UN estimates.

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Displacement Crisis Worsens

The confl🀅ict forced nine million others from their homes, according to United Nations estimates. Sudan is now home to the largest displacement crisis in the world.

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Cycle Of Coups Continues

Since independence in 1956, the country has experienced more coups than any other in Africa, 🅠most short-lived ꦕand bloodless.

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Power Struggle 

The rivals 𒐪this time — the national army and the paramilitary force that once did its bidding — had seized power together in 2021, but fell out over how to merge their armies.

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General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan leads the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)

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General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) leads the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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Devastating Free-For-All

The Sudaꦚnese have been stunned by the destruction, b🔴ut neither side looks capable of victory, and the war is metastasizing into a devastating free-for-all.

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