The Global Implications of Sudan's Crisis.

Fighting has erupted in Sudan as rival military factions, the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), battle for control, increasing the risk of a nationwide civil war. The key question is who is in control and who would be the military’s commander-in-chief during an integration period. The protagonists in the outbreak of violence are army General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy and the RSF leader, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. The RSF was created in 2013 and evolved from the so-called Janjaweed militias, which are accused of war crimes in the Darfur region. Sudan borders the Red Sea, the Sahel region and the Horn of Africa, and its strategic location and agricultural wealth have attracted regional power plays, complicating the chances of a successful transition.