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22/04/2023

The US is preparing to send a large number of additional troops to its base in Djibouti if factional violence continues, officials say

21/04/2023

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SUDAN?

A powerful Libyan militia leader and the Egyptian military have sent military support to rival generals battling for control of neighboring Sudan, people familiar with the matter say, an illustration of how the fighting threatens to draw in regional powers.

Khalifa Haftar, the commander of a faction that controls eastern Libya, dispatched at least one plane to fly military supplies to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, these people said. Meanwhile, Egypt sent warplanes and pilots to back the Sudanese military, they added.

Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group has offered heavy weapons to the leader of Sudan’s Rapid Support Force, one of two rival factions battling for control of the East African country, according to a current and a former U.S. official, and a person close to the Sudanese general.

The Kremlin-backed group has offered to send arms, including shoulder-mounted Manpads antiaircraft missiles, that it has in neighboring Central African Republic, where Wagner has been active in recent years, these people said.

The fate of some of Africa’s most important strategic resources is hanging in the balance as Sudan’s top two generals vie for supremacy, from the waters of the Nile and access to crucial shipping lanes to some of the continent’s largest gold mines.
These riches have long caught the eye of outside powers, including Russia, Egypt and the petrostates of the Gulf. Now, some are trying to influence the outcome of the conflict, by offering weapons and other military support to the rival factions, moves that could drag out a lethal confrontation between Sudan’s military and a state-sponsored militia in which hundreds of people have already been killed.

Source: Wall Street Journal

20/04/2023

More than 100 people have been killed and over 600 injured including dozens of civilians amid fighting between Somaliland security forces and armed fighters affiliated with the Dhulbahante clan in Las Anod.

19/04/2023

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19/04/2023

The situation in Sudan is feared to develop into bloody civil war.

The embattled groups are shelling public facilities and hospitals are going out of work after being targeted by the warring sides.

People in the capital could not go out of their houses, and student in Khardoum University was buried in the university compound because of the risk outside.

Electricity outage and lack of fresh water are also endangering the lives of thousands.

18/04/2023

- shelling continues in the fourth consecutive day in Sudan. The head of the Sovereign Council branded the Rapid Support Forces as rebellious group and should be dissolved.

Hospitals and other public entities were targeted and some properties were looted.

Smoke still rises from some key sites in the capital and the sides accuse each other of deliberately triggering the problem.

18/04/2023

17/04/2023

Somali opposition leader Sied Abdi Nur urges Russia to deploy forces in civil war-ridden Somalia as a counterweight to western presence in the area.