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Sudan’s army in the sprawling western region of [Darfur](/news/2026/4/27/war-and-neglect-fuel-deadly-measles-epidemic-in-sudans-darfur). The RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have been fighting a vicious [civil war](/news/2026/4/16/after-three-years-of-war-sudan-army-and-rsf-locked-in-military-impasse) since April 2023, which has killed hundreds
civil wars in South Sudan and Syria, resulted in refugee numbers exceeding 30 million by the end of 2021. The war in Ukraine, which started in 2022, led to one of the fastest-growing refugee
civil war](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/19/an-existential-battle-of-interests-what-the-sudanese-war-is-actually-about) for the past three years. *“*It’s too dry, there’s not enough water, the lands were just left without anyone to cultivate them and millions have fled,” he said
civil war on April 15, 2023 following a power struggle between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a powerful paramilitary force, and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). Fighting first erupted in the capital Khartoum, but soon
civil war, Sudan has become unrecognisable with more than 40,000 people killed, about 14 million of its people – a quarter of the population – forced to flee their homes and civilian infrastructure across the country
Sudan – in 1960, that demand intensified. Tuaregs and Arabs predominantly occupy northern Mali. They have closer ties with populations in Algeria, northern Niger and parts of Mauritania than with the Bambara people, who make