insights INSIGHT Rapid Support Forces' Campaign In El Fasher ios_share
The Rapid Support Forces seized El Fasher after an 18-month siege and then committed widespread atrocities captured in fighter-filmed videos.
Satellite imagery and open-source investigators have corroborated mass killings and blood traces around the city.
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insights INSIGHT Darfur's Militias Are More Powerful Now ios_share
The RSF is a modern, better-armed descendant of the Janjaweed using armored vehicles and Chinese drones against the army.
The war has displaced 12 million people and caused famine and up to 400,000 deaths, making it one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.
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question_answer ANECDOTE Finding Gold Papers In An RSF Villa ios_share
Declan found corporate documents for RSF-run gold mines while exploring abandoned RSF villas in Khartoum.
Those papers linked the fighters' wealth and business empire directly to gold mining revenues.
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Get the app Twenty years ago, a genocidal campaign in the Darfur region of Sudan shocked the world. Now, videos and images of new atrocities have captured global attention once more.
Declan Walsh, who has been covering Sudan, discusses one of the worst humanitarian conflicts in decades, and how gold is fueling it.
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