Who to stop the fighting? Sudan showdown triggers risk of regional spillover

Dagalo – better known as Hemedti – has released captured Egyptian soldiers, whose presence serves as a reminder that his rival did his officer's training with Egypt's coup leader-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. 

In the four years since the revolution that ousted longtime strongman Omar al-Bashir, Hemedti has courted outside backers of his own: doing a deal with Russia’s Wagner to secure gold mining, sending mercenaries to fight in the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen and also in Libya, whose rebel strongman denies a report he sent ammunition to Hemedti this week. Could Sudan descend into both civil war and a proxy war?

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juliette Laurain and Imen Mellaz.

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