Weapons bearing the logo of a Canadian arms manufacturer have been identified in the hands of a paramilitary group in Sudan responsible for massacres of civilians, analysis by CBC’s visual investigations unit has found.

The civil war that erupted on April 15, 2023, has wreaked havoc on civilian infrastructure, decimated health-care facilities in Sudan and resulted in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. An estimated 150,000 people have died in the conflict and more than 12 million civilians are internally displaced.

The city of El Fasher — considered the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Darfur — has become the epicentre of Sudan’s spiralling war. For more than 500 days, the city had been under siege, encircled entirely by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which

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