Sudan risks long conflict as entrenched rivals struggle for control
Sudan’s warring factions are locked in a conflict that two weeks of fighting shows neither can easily win, raising the spectre of a drawn-out war between an agile paramilitary force and the better-equipped army that could destabilise a fragile region.
Foreign mediators have struggled to arrest the slide to war: a series of ceasefires brokered by the United States and others have been undermined by shelling and air raids in Khartoum and conflict elsewhere, including the Darfur region in the west.
Hemedti and al-Burhan have both excluded the idea of negotiating with each other in public comments since the fighting began.
