Civil war in Sudan

[Sandhi Yudha]

After fights started between the Armed Forces of Sudan and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitairy group, a Saudian airliner was hit by gunfire. We can also see here two airliners on the ground on fire.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647245894121820168

And here we can see that also elsewhere in Sudan it is a complete mess.

Sudan: Army and RSF battle over key sites, leaving 56 civilians dead

Clashes between the army and a notorious paramilitary force leave nearly 600 people injured.

www.bbc.com

 

[Capt. Ironpants]

Ref the 3 dead UN, it is unknown at this time who they were, but death threats against SRSG Volker Perthes were issued recently. I knew when this started that UN would be targeted. See:

Sudan fatwa call worries UN as Bashir loyalists up activity

The United Nations expressed concern on Tuesday about a request for a fatwa seeking the assassination of its head in Sudan, as loyalists of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir stepped up opposition to a draft deal for a new civilian government.

www.reuters.com

 

[swerve]

It pains me that I have to wish for a swift & decisive victory by the Sudanese army, but the RSF is such a loathsome bunch (the former Janjaweed), that the thought of it winning is ghastly.

 

[Omo23]

After fights started between the Armed Forces of Sudan and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitairy group, a Saudian airliner was hit by gunfire. We can also see here two airliners on the ground on fire.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647245894121820168

And here we can see that also elsewhere in Sudan it is a complete mess.

Sudan: Army and RSF battle over key sites, leaving 56 civilians dead

Clashes between the army and a notorious paramilitary force leave nearly 600 people injured.

www.bbc.com

This is bad..EU did a big mistake funding the RSF (Janjaweed) riff raffs...

 

[swerve]

This is bad..EU did a big mistake funding the RSF (Janjaweed) riff raffs...

EU funding? Can you explain, please? I'd not heard about that.

 

[Omo23]

EU funding? Can you explain, please? I'd not heard about that.

It a research paper by reliefweb...

Border Control from Hell: How the EU's migration partnership legitimizes Sudan's "militia state" - Sudan

Analysis in English on Sudan and 8 other countries about Protection and Human Rights; published on 6 Apr 2017 by Enough Project

reliefweb.int

 

[Sandhi Yudha]

In this news article they are telling that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are supported by some rich Persian Gulf states like Saudi-Arabia and UAE, because these countries use RSF-units in their own wars in Jemen and Libië. Russia seems also to have a good relationship with RSF, while Egypt has a good connection with the official Sudanese government.
NOS doesn't tell anything about EU-countries, but NOS is far from objective, and we can see in Libië that several EU-countries have chosen their own side.

Hoe de Golfstaten, goudmijnen en huurlingen een rol spelen in het Sudanese conflict

Van veel kanten wordt aangedrongen op een bestand, maar die oproepen hebben nog geen effect.

nos.nl

 

[Sandhi Yudha]

The situation is becoming worse in Sudan, with the war spreading to other parts of the country, like Darfur.

Sudan's Darfur conflict: Why an accountant took up arms

Sudan's western region of Darfur has seen some of the worst fighting recently, including ethnic attacks.

www.bbc.com

|"Volgens de Verenigde Naties hebben 25 miljoen mensen, meer dan de helft van de Sudanese bevolking, humanitaire hulp en bescherming nodig. Om aan deze behoeften te kunnen voldoen, is de VN op zoek naar ongeveer 2,6 miljard dollar."|

So because the RSF/Janjawid and Sudan Armed Forces having a devastating war, the people of Sudan need humanitarian assistance and protection, which will cost billions and have to be paid by other countries.

Gevechten in Sudan worden heviger, ook in westelijke regio Darfur

De zware strijd tussen het Sudanese leger en de paramilitaire groepering Rapid Support Forces (RSF) duurt inmiddels al een maand.

nos.nl

 

[Capt. Ironpants]

The situation is becoming worse in Sudan, with the war spreading to other parts of the country, like Darfur.

Sudan's Darfur conflict: Why an accountant took up arms

Sudan's western region of Darfur has seen some of the worst fighting recently, including ethnic attacks.

www.bbc.com

|"Volgens de Verenigde Naties hebben 25 miljoen mensen, meer dan de helft van de Sudanese bevolking, humanitaire hulp en bescherming nodig. Om aan deze behoeften te kunnen voldoen, is de VN op zoek naar ongeveer 2,6 miljard dollar."|

So because the RSF/Janjawid and Sudan Armed Forces having a devastating war, the people of Sudan need humanitarian assistance and protection, which will cost billions and have to be paid by other countries.

Gevechten in Sudan worden heviger, ook in westelijke regio Darfur

De zware strijd tussen het Sudanese leger en de paramilitaire groepering Rapid Support Forces (RSF) duurt inmiddels al een maand.

nos.nl

I very much appreciate that this is a military forum, not a humanitarian one, but anyone who has ever been near a military conflict knows that the military and humanitarian situations can and do affect one another (for example, we tend to forget that the unrest in Syria at the very, very beginning was because of rising global grain prices coupled with implementation of IMF prescriptions for agricultural reforms in that country -- negative humanitarian impacts resulting from military conflicts are well known and need no examples). I have been following the situation in Sudan for over a quarter of a century now, and it seems to me we have a "both and" situation there, as in there is considerable synergy between military conflict and the humanitarian situation.

Anyway, I am scheduled to attend this event and will report back here if there is any interest:

The Humanitarian Crisis In Sudan And The Looming Threat Of Famine

www.hoover.org

I hope this link is okay, considering it is purely academic and the speaker is a Tufts expert on Sudan. If not, my apologies to our wonderful mods and understand if you want to zap my post.

@Capt. Ironpants This post is fine. It covers one side of war that we sometimes forget.

Ngatimozart.