Two years of war in Sudan triggered the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”

Once allies, they’re now enemies. In 2019, the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces worked together to oust former strongman Omar al-Bashir from power. But after a failed transition to civilian rule, the Sudanese army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces commander, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, worked together again in 2021 to overthrow the government. For a time, Sudanese expected a peaceful return to civilian rule. Then came April 2023 and two years of civil war. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than 13 million uprooted, with reports of rape being used as a weapon of war across the country. The UN also says it’s the world’s biggest crisis of hunger and displacement. And the effects of the war are spreading beyond Sudan’s borders.