Twenty-two years ago, the devils came on horseback. Now they come on pickup trucks mounted with machine guns, funded by gold and assisted by drones. Now, the devils fight against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) rather than for it, and they’re doing so with more efficient tools. But if you’re a civilian in Darfur, the outcome is the same: genocide.
The conflict in Sudan today differs somewhat from the war in Darfur in the early 2000s, when the government in Khartoum was the instigator and the Janjaweed militia did its dirty work. Today’s war pits the SAF, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohammed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo. But, in Darfur, history just seems to be repeating itself, since the RSF is little more than the rebranded Janjaweed, and He

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