What is the background to the conflict?
By Ole Olsen; Chairman of the UN Federation’s Human Rights Committee

The current conflict dates back to 2003, when there was a rebellion in the western Darfur province of Sudan, fighting for greater autonomy. One of the central government’s tools was to arm a local militia, the Janjaweed militia, and encourage them to attack across the province.

This led to widespread attacks, including on civilians, with the burning of towns, villages and crops, which in turn led to a severe humanitarian crisis with many deaths.
The conflict then meant that the Janjaweed militia gained considerable power in Darfur, also because the government in Khartoum paid it with control over gold mines, among other things.

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The current acts of war.

The current hostilities started on April 15, 2023, when fighting broke out between
the central government and the former Janjaweed militia, now Rapid Support Forces. It had switched from being allied to opposing the government in Khartoum.

The conflict is largely believed to be a personal power struggle between two individuals, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the de facto ruler of the Sudanese government and Hamdan Dagalo, leader of the RFS. The fighting has turned into a civil war in which over 150,000 people have been killed (source: Information, September 2024) and up to 10 million have been displaced. Of these, around 2 million have sought refuge in neighboring countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia and Chad.

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150,000 people have died in Sudan’s civil war. In a soup kitchen, volunteers work hard to alleviate the threat of hunger | Information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023%E2%80%93present)