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“The army holds sway in Sudan’s central and eastern regions, while the Darfur region in the west and parts of the south are under control of the rival RSF.”

“It comes amid growing concern in Egypt over large-scale displacement from the three-and-a-half-year conflict in Sudan, which has spurred a cross-border exodus.”

“Sudan has been engulfed in a civil war since April 2023, when a power struggle between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, turned…”

“Drones have increasingly become the weapon of choice in Sudan's three-and-a-half-year-old civil war, with both the RSF and their foes, the Sudanese army, deploying the latest technologies used in other war zones such as Ukraine.”

“Political survival prioritised Sudan’s civil war erupted in April 2023 after months of tensions between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group.”

“In Sudan, the national museum in Khartoum was stripped of its treasures in 2023 when it came under the control of one of the warring factions, the RSF, which loaded them onto trucks and left the display rooms bare.”

“Since war broke out in April 2023 between Sudan's army and the RSF, the war efforts of both sides have been largely funded by the gold industry, alongside foreign backers.”

“Sudan’s civil war, a conflict credibly described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, has seen violence matched only by the belligerents’ rapacity in pillaging the country’s riches.”

“The army’s supporters argue that the embargo should bind only the RSF, that a sovereign state retains the right to acquire arms.”

“The war in Sudan – which erupted in 2023 amid a power struggle between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – has killed at least 59,000 people and forced some 14 million people from their homes.”