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Agence France-Presse

Sudan’s paramilitary declared on Tuesday the establishment of government rivalling the army-backed administration, two years into a war that has triggered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The war that erupted on April 15, 2023 has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced 13 million, with no sign of peace on the horizon.
The fighting has pitted the regular army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, headed by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
“On this anniversary, we proudly declare the establishment of the Government of Peace and Unity, a broad coalition that reflects the true face of Sudan,” Daglo said in a statement on Telegram.
In late February, the RSF and its allies signed a charter in Kenya declaring the formation of a “government of peace and unity” in areas under their control.
Daglo added on Tuesday that the paramilitaries, along with “civil and political forces”, had signed a transitional constitution, describing it as a “road map for a new Sudan”.
That constitution provides for a 15-member presidential council “representing all regions, symbolising our voluntary unity”.

Analysts have previously warned that the conflict could leave Sudan permanently divided between the warring sides, both of which face accusations of abuses.
With the RSF emboldened in Darfur, “the territorial division that’s occurring could mean a de facto separation”, said Sharath Srinivasan, a professor at Cambridge University who studies Sudan.
At the start of the war, the capital Khartoum became a battleground, with bodies lining the streets, sending hundreds of thousands fleeing.
Those left behind struggled to survive.
“I’ve lost half my body weight,” said 52-year-old Abdel Rafi Hussein, who stayed in the capital under RSF control until the army retook it last month.
“We’re safe [now], but still, we suffer from a lack of water and electricity and most hospitals aren’t working.”
The army’s recapture of Khartoum marked a turnaround after more than a year of setbacks.
Many civilians celebrated what they called the “liberation” of the capital from the RSF, whose fighters were accused of widespread looting and sexual violence.
But now the RSF is seeking to cement its grip on the vast western region of Darfur, where it has launched a deadly assault on El-Fasher – the last major city in the region outside its control.
More than 400 people have been killed in the offensive, the United Nations said, with the paramilitaries having claimed control of the nearby Zamzam displacement camp on Sunday.
An estimated 400,000 civilians fled the famine-hit camp as the RSF advanced, according to the International Organisation for Migration.
The army said on Tuesday that it had carried out “successful air strikes” against RSF positions northeast of the city.
In total, the conflict has displaced some 13 million people, 3.8 million of them abroad, according to UN figures.

In London on Tuesday, officials from around the world were meeting to “agree a pathway to end the suffering” in Sudan, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said.
But neither of the warring parties attended the meeting, where the African Union and European countries called for an end to the war.
Precise death tolls are not available because of the collapse of the healthcare system, but former US envoy Tom Perriello cited estimates last year of up to 150,000 dead.
On Tuesday, the UN said 2.1 million people are expected to return to Khartoum over the next six months following the army’s recapture.
In central Sudan – where the UN said nearly 400,000 people had returned to areas retaken by the army by March – many have come back to ruins, preferring destitution at home to displacement.
Zainab Abdel Rahim, 38, returned to Khartoum North this month with her six children, to find their home looted beyond recognition.
“We’re trying to pull together the essentials, but there’s no water, no electricity, no medicine,” she said.
According to Catherine Russell, executive director of the UN’s children’s agency, the war has “shattered the lives of millions of children across Sudan”.
The Zamzam camp, which had been sheltering up to a million people, was the first place in Sudan where famine was declared.
Other nearby camps have followed and famine is expected to take hold in El-Fasher itself by next month.
On Monday, Guterres called for an end to “the external support and flow of weapons” fuelling the war.
“Those with greatest influence on the parties must use it to better the lives of people in Sudan – not to perpetuate this disaster,” he said, without naming any countries.
The army-backed government has accused the United Arab Emirates of arming the paramilitaries via neighbouring Chad, an accusation both Abu Dhabi and the RSF deny.


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Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), delivers a speech in Khartoum, Sudan, in May 2019. Photo: Reuters

A Sudanese woman walks past graves of people killed during clashes lining the streets of Khartoum’s twin-city Omdurman in March. Photo: AFP

A Sudanese woman looks on as she sits next to children on Tuesday at a camp in Port Sudan that houses people mostly displaced from the capital Khartoum. Photo: Reuters

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Sudanese Red Crescent volunteers work near bodies recovered from a well in the state of Khartoum, Sudan, in March. Photo: Reuters

A displaced Sudanese woman rests inside a shelter in North Darfur, Sudan, in August. Photo: Reuters

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Sudan army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gestures to soldiers inside the presidential palace on Wednesday. Photo: Sudan Transitional Sovereignty Council via Reuters

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan kneels on the ground after disembarking from a helicopter in the capital Khartoum. Photo: Sudan Sovereign Council via Reuters

Members of the Sudanese army and a destroyed military vehicle in the capital Khartoum. Photo: Reuters

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and security forces at the presidential palace in Khartoum. Photo: Xinhua

An armed Sudanese man lifts a snake as people in Port Sudan celebrate the recapture of Khartoum by the army on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

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Sudanese army members film themselves inside the presidential palace in Khartoum on Friday, as the army says it has taken control of the building. Photo: Screenshot from social media video, via Reuters 

Humanitarian workers pose for photos in November next to trucks carrying aid to Sudan. Photo: Handout via Reuters

A Sudanese boy looks on as a woman walks past a damaged building in the city of Omdurman on Thursday. The nation’s civil war has raged for almost two years. Photo: AFP

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The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Photo: Reuters

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Photo: EPA/EFE

Protesters hold up placards as they gather outside the UAE embassy during a demonstration against the military coup in Sudan, in central London on November 13, 2021. Photo: AFP

Displaced Sudanese, who fled the Zamzam refugee camp in the eastern North Darfur State, on February 14. Photo: AFP

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Displaced Sudanese, who fled the Zamzam camp, gather near the town of Tawila in North Darfur on February 14. Photo: AFP

These pictures show the market area at the entrance to the Zamzam refugee camp near North Darfur’s besieged capital El-Fasher before on January 14 and after heavy damage from fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces on February 13. Photo: AFP

People wait to collect food at a location set up by a local humanitarian organisation to donate meals and medication to people displaced by the war in Sudan, in Meroe in the country’s Northern State, on January 9. Photo: AFP

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The conflict has triggered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands killed and 13 million people displaced


The conflict has triggered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands killed and 13 million people displaced.


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