How to stop it? Sudan's neighbours feel spillover of deadly showdown

Meanwhile, foreign players have tried to broker truces, but is it time to change tack? To sanction Sudan's junta leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his nominal number two Hemedti, head of the RSF paramilitaries, the US, Egypt and Gulf States need to agree that neither is fit to rule.

But with Egypt backing Burhan, and with Russia and the Emirates in business with Hemedti and the gold mines he controls, how to prevent what the UN warns could be an exodus of 800,000 people fleeing the country?

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Josephine Joly and Imen Mellaz.

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