The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) signed a charter on Saturday evening, together with political and armed allies. The signatories say they want to form a “government of peace and unity” in the areas they have controlled. Reuters news agency reports this. The Sudanese regular army has condemned the formation of a parallel government.
Sudan must become a “secular, democratic, non-centralized state” with one national army and may continue to exist, according to Reuters, there is in the charter.
Civil war
Since April 2023, a brutal and apparent hopeless war has been raging in Sudan. That is bitter, because four years earlier, Sudanese celebrated the deposits of autocratic and Muslim fundamentalist President Omar Al-Bashir. After the popular uprising, the army refused to transfer power to a civil regime. Even months of demonstrations made no impression on the generals.
The Sudanese armed forces consist of different factions, the original of which is the original regular army and the hundred thousand -strong RSF the largest. A conflict within the armed forces collapsed: the RSF did not want to integrate its armed forces with the regular troops of Sudan, after which the country quickly fell apart.
In the meantime, the RSF has taken over the power in the vast majority of the western region of Darfur and parts of the central area of Kordofan. The regular army tries to drive away the paramilitaries from Central Sudan.
In the meantime, citizens are hungry because the warring parties confiscate relief supplies and stop food craps. Soldiers, especially from the RSF, terrorize citizens. Refugees talk about executions, rapes and destruction of displacement camps.
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