Understanding Sudan’s Conflict by Focusing on Darfur

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Understanding Sudan’s Conflict by Focusing on Darfur

Nearly two decades after ethnic violence sparked a genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, last month the United States determined that a new genocide is occurring in the war-torn country. The United States found that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – led by Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemedti – have “systematically murdered men and boys . . . on an ethnic basis, and deliberately targeted women and girls from certain ethnic group…