Rsf in a sentence

A BBC journalist pointed out that an RSF legal advisor recently cited a bill passed by the Al Bashir regime to legitimise the existence of the RSF, highlighting its origins in the previous dictatorship.

The fighting, which pits Sudan’s military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against RSF chief General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, followed rising tensions over a plan for the RSF’s integration into the regular military.

The RSF is also believed to have good relations with Yemen, as Hemedti sent thousands of RSF mercenaries there to fight Iran-aligned Houthi fighters, allying with Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

The video appearance comes as the RSF is pressing a multi-day attack on the Armored Corps base in southern Khartoum, the army's only other major base in the capital apart from army command, which the RSF says it is blockading.

However, tensions between the two leaders emerged, chief among them the plan to integrate the RSF into the Sudanese military, and the RSF and SAF now see themselves as implacable opponents in a devastating conflict.

RSF refused and in April 2023 the fighting between government forces and the RSF began.

We have previously determined that members of the SAF and the RSF have committed war crimes, and that members of the RSF have committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.

Abdallah lives with her seven children in Omdurman, one of the three cities that makes up Sudan's wider capital and has seen frequent fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

About 50km (30 miles) west of Nyala, Arab tribesmen riding RSF vehicles raided the Kubum area of South Darfur last week, burning down the local market and sacking a police station, the legal group said in a separate statement.

According to Sudan Tribune news agency, the RSF has deployed heavily in Nyala since the beginning of October, mobilizing thousands of tribal fighters from Central, West, and East Darfur to support them in overthrowing the army leadership in South Darfur.

Aid groups and health workers repeatedly warn that without humanitarian corridors – which the army and RSF both had pledged but which failed to materialise – disease outbreaks and overwhelmed care facilities could spell disaster.

An RSF statement Wednesday said the army was "covering up" NCP officials' activities across the country, particularly in eastern Sudan, and warned against "civil war".

A weeks-long power struggle erupted into battles Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Brokering agreement on the basics of a resolution to the core issue that triggered the war - whether and how the RSF could fall under the army's command - may be necessary to reaching a sustained ceasefire.

But Gen Burhan rejected the initiative, claiming that Mr Ruto is biased towards the RSF.

But they fell out over the phrases and timing of a deliberate transition to civilian rule and neither man has proven he’s prepared for concessions, with the military controlling air energy and the RSF dug deep into metropolis districts.

By then, at least 120 had been killed and thousands injured in the crackdown on pro-democracy protests by the army, the police, and the RSF.

Entire villages and neighbourhoods there have been destroyed, civilians buried in mass graves and officials assassinated for their ethnic background by the RSF and allied Arab militias.

Every day, they try to convince people of the RSF's magnanimity.

Fighting has so far seen the more agile RSF forces fan out across the city as the better equipped army tries to target them largely by using air strikes from drones and fighter jets.