Sudan’s war has become a systematic assault on civilian infrastructure, driving a nationwide humanitarian collapse marked by hunger, disease, and displacement.

Hemedti is forming a parallel government and a “new army” in Sudan amid defections and allegations of foreign support, but it remains unrecognized and unlikely to shift the war’s balance.

The Sudanese conflict is no longer confined to the civil war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces militia, but has taken on rapidly escalating regional dimensions.

The defection of Major General al-Nour Ahmed Adam al-Qubba, one of the most prominent field commanders in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), marks one of the most significant breaks yet inside the UAE-backed militia.

A sweeping reshuffle ordered by Sudan’s TSC chief and army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on April 2, 2026, has triggered questions over its timing, intent, and broader implications for the country’s shifting power balance.