Sudan: Contested Corridors: The Illicit Transnational Supply Chains Sustaining Sudan’s Conflict

Nov 20, 2025 | Ruben De Koning
Global Initiative
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In late October 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary organization fighting for control of Sudan, captured the city of El Fasher, in Darfur, marking yet another step in the country’s bloody civil war. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled the city and thousands have reportedly been killed. With the fall of the Sudanese Armed Forces’ (SAF) last stronghold in western Sudan – coming two months after RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) declared a parallel state in Nyala – Sudan’s east–west split is now almost complete.