>>213825747During the previous civil war in Sudan where there was an uprising in Darfur, the government of Sudan relied on absolutely brutal Arab militias called Janjaweed to put down the revolt, with the central government tacitly accepting and backing their war crimes and genocidal actions against the non-Arab blacks.
The Janjaweed militias became an army in it's own right called the Rapid Support Forces that had an immense amount of power deferred to them by the central government especially in the southwest to maintain control.
Recently Sudan was supposed to transition to democracy and hold their first free elections in decades, the RSF leadership feared losing their influence and so launched a coup which failed to take over the capital but succeeded in the regions they're based that they now control much of the country. They now have literally no oversight in the Darfur region and have launched a massive genocidal campaign again against the non-Arab black populations. If/once Al-Fashir falls it legitimately might be over for them. The central government wasn't even that good to them but so far frontlines have stagnated for months, and it doesn't look like they'll break the siege in time.