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Sudan
Security reform still a sticking point in political dialogue

Members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries in the village of Abraq, about 60 km northwest of Khartoum, on 22 June 2019. © Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP

Sudan should get its transition to democracy back on track in the first half of April. Thorny issues like the integration of the powerful Rapid Support Forces into the regular army look unlikely to be settled by then, however. [...]

Published on 29/03/2023 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Sudan's ousted prime minister Abdalla Hamdok.

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