History was repeating itself in Sudan, the head of the Red Cross said recently as reports of mass killings in the Darfur region emerged last week.

Sudan was among the earliest African countries to gain independence from colonial rule. It participated in the landmark Bandung Conference in 1955 (of 29 Asian and African nations, including India), and was Africa’s largest country till South Sudan broke away in 2011.

On April 15, 2023, Sudan was plunged into its worst crisis in decades when violent clashes broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a powerful paramilitary group under General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (known as Hemedti). What began as a power struggle between two rival generals has evolved into a br

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