REPORTAGE – For over a year, a fratricidal conflict between the Sudanese regular army and the FSR paramilitaries, former allies, has transformed the country into a powder keg: over 150,000 dead, millions of refugees, a proliferation of militias and a risk of conflagration in neighboring states. A war that is being played out behind closed doors, coupled with a major humanitarian crisis.
Before I got there, I even wondered if this war really existed. » On the other end of the phone: Ivor Prickett. He is the one who took these exceptional and rare images that we are publishing. Sent by the New York Times In one of the most closed countries in the world for journalists, Sudan, he was able to spend several weeks with journalist Declan Walsh to bear witness to the brutal conflict between two generals: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese regular army, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group. They were previously allies in a transitional government, set up after the fall of Omar al-Bashir’s regime in 2019, but disagreements quickly emerged over the transfer of power to civilian figures and the reintegration of paramilitary units into the national army. The result: violent fighting in the capital, Khartoum, which has left a stain on…
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