In Sudan, shells no longer fall on Khartoum but rain down on El-Fasher. After the regular army regained control of the capital at the end of March, the noise of war now echoes in the west of the country, in Darfur, where paramilitary forces resumed their deadly assaults on Friday, April 11, against the last city not under their control in this vast desert region.

Two years after the start of the clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under the command of General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan and the paramilitary militia Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, alias "Hemedti," no resolution is in sight. This conflict, which has claimed over 150,000 lives since 2023, has also become the world's most severe humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations, with nearly 13 million people displaced by the fighting and half of Sudan's 44 million people on the brink of famine.

On April 15, 2023, the first bullet was fired in Khartoum. Three days after the encirclement of an airbase in the north of the country by paramilitaries, clashes erupted at dawn in the heart of the capital. Against a backdrop of tensions over the integration of the RSF into the regular army and a struggle for the country's resources, the two coup generals who ended the democratic transition initiated in 2019 following the fall of Omar al-Bashir have plunged Sudan into an inextricable spiral of violence.

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