The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF; Arabic: القوات المسلحة السودانية, romanized: Al-Quwwat al-Musallaha as-Sudaniyah) are the military forces of the Republic of the Sudan. In 2011, IISS estimated the forces' numbers at 109,300 personnel. [9] .

5 days ago · The RSF and Sudan’s military began fighting each other in April 2023. Their conflict has killed more than 28,000 people, forced millions to flee their homes and left some families eating grass in a desperate attempt to survive as famine sweeps parts of the country. Other estimates suggest a far higher death toll in the civil war.

Jan 23, 2025 · A fighter loyal to Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan holds up a weapon backdropped by the minaret of a mosque, during a graduation ceremony in the southeastern Gedaref state on May 27 ...

4 days ago · Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has visited the military’s headquarters in the capital Khartoum in his first appearance there since government forces claimed to have broken a months ...

6 days ago · Sudan's army headquarters was besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the start of the war in April 2023. On Friday, the army said it broke the siege. The war between the RSF ...

A civil war between two major rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies (collectively the Janjaweed coalition) under the Janjaweed leader Hemedti, began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023. [21] Three minor (neutral) factions have also participated in the fighting ...

Apr 17, 2023 · CAIRO (AP) — Tensions have been brewing for weeks between Sudan’s two most powerful generals, who just 18 months earlier jointly orchestrated a military coup to derail the nation’s transition to democracy.

Apr 16, 2023 · Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary force battled fiercely in the capital and other areas, dealing a new blow to hopes for a transition to democracy and raising fears of a wider conflict. A doctors’ syndicate said Sunday the death toll …

Aug 13, 2024 · Fighting between the military and a powerful paramilitary group has led to massacres, caused millions to flee their homes and now threatens to cause a famine.

Apr 15, 2023 · At least 25 people have died and 183 more are wounded after heavy fighting erupted between Sudan’s army and a paramilitary group, medical officials say. Plans to integrate the group, the Rapid...