Abubakr Ahmed was ready to die on the soil he had fought so hard to defend from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). For 550 days, he fought as a member of the “popular resistance”, a neighbourhood group formed to help the army and aligned armed groups protect el-Fasher from the RSF, their rival in […]
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Road out of el-Fasher: Ransom, violence and the price of survival in Sudan | Sudan war News
When Mouawia heard the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group had overrun the western city of el-Fasher after besieging it for most of the two and a half years of war with Sudan’s army, he was devastated. Speaking to Al Jazeera over the phone on Sunday, the activist’s voice broke as he spoke of his […]