Shaul Shay
(Senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya and former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council)
Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 3 May 2025
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In April 2023 fighting broke out between Sudan’s military (SAF) under the command of President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as "Hemedti." After almost two years of war, the SAF announced full control of Sudan’s tri-city capital on March 26, 2025.[ Ali Mahmoud Ali; Jalale Getachew Birru; Nohad Eltayeb, Two years of war in Sudan: How the SAF is gaining the upper hand, ACLED, April 15,2025. ] The recapture of Khartoum city marks a watershed moment in the conflict and the SAF has now gained the upper hand. ... Read more