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The Sudan war

Analytical coverage of the Sudan war - illicit finance, external meddling, RSF/SAF dynamics, and regional spillover. Our articles, exclusives, WarFronts videos and podcasts on it, in one place.

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The Sudan war is sustained by structural inputs - illicit finance, external state meddling, and the long history of paramilitary economies - more than by any single battlefield turn.

Fronts covers the Sudan war by tracing those inputs: who funds which side, how the RSF and SAF actually mobilize and pay forces, what regional powers extract from prolonging the conflict, and where humanitarian and security spillovers land.

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  1. 31 Aug
    Analysis
    · 11 min readFree

    Sudan’s Paramilitaries are the Best-Funded Insurgents on Earth. They’re also Losing the War.

    Thomas van Linge

  2. 3 Aug
    Analysis
    · 61 min readInsider

    The World's Top Sudan Expert Sees No End in Sight to the War

    Wilfred Waimiri

  3. 16 Feb
    Intelligence
    · 16 min readFree

    How Illicit Finance Fuels All Sides of the Sudan War.

    Evan Moloney

  4. 26 Jan
    Conflicts
    · 10 min readFree

    Sudan’s Dagalo Markets are Destabilizing Africa

    Phillip Carroll

  5. 22 Jan
    Conflicts
    · 22 min readFree

    We Spoke to Sudan’s Ambassador about the War. This is What He Said.

    Wilfred Waimiri

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The Sudan war is sustained by structural inputs - illicit finance, external state meddling, and the long history of paramilitary economies - more than by any single battlefield turn.

Fronts covers the Sudan war by tracing those inputs: who funds which side, how the RSF and SAF actually mobilize and pay forces, what regional powers extract from prolonging the conflict, and where humanitarian and security spillovers land.

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