— which had once operated in the same national military force — led a joint coup that dissolved Sudan’s transitional government. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Britain welcomed this agreement as a step in the right direction. Since the start of the war on April 15, the R.S.F. The participants refuse to cooperate with the Sudanese military, which has orchestrated genocides and violence since Sudan’s independence in 1956, or with its dark offshoot, the R.S.F. It was inevitable that they would eventually come head-to-head with the institution that created them.

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Persons: —, Wagner, ’ Organizations: United Arab Emirates, Revolutionary Charter, Sudanese, African Union Commission Locations: Saudi Arabia, United States, Britain, El, Khartoum, Darfur, Libya, Europe, Sudan