Sudan Risks Split as Warring Factions Ready Parallel Governments

  • Militia-backed government plans to sign charter in Nairobi
  • Analysts say decision increases chances of Sudan partition

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan waves as he arrives in Meroe, Sudan.

Photographer: AFP/Getty Images

The warring factions in Sudan’s two-year-long civil war plan to announce parallel governments, a move that may lead to a Libya-style split of the devastated North African nation.

A coalition of Sudanese political entities will on Tuesday sign the founding charter of a new “peace and unity government” allied with the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, according to Ezzadean al-Safi, a political adviser to RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. The alliance includes a faction of the opposition National Umma Party, several armed groups and former members of the nation’s civilian government, he said.

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