Analysts estimate the force numbers about 100,000, with bases and deployments across Sudan.
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Here are some facts about Sudan’s main paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, which said on Saturday, April 15, it had taken control of the presidential palace and the country’s international airport in an. It accused the army of attacking first; the military said it was fighting back.
It evolved from so-called janjaweed militias that fought in a conflict in the 2000s in the Darfur region, where they were used by the government of long-ruling President Omar al-Bashir to help the army put down a rebellion. An estimated 2.5 million people were displaced and 300,000 killed in the conflict. International Criminal Court prosecutors accused government officials and janjaweed commanders of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
Beginning in 2015, the RSF, along with Sudan’s army, began sending troops to fight in the war in Yemen alongside Saudi and Emirati troops, allowing Hemedti to forge ties with the Gulf powers. In April 2019, the RSF participated in a military coup that ousted Bashir. Later that year, Hemedti signed a power-sharing agreement that made him deputy of a ruling council headed by army general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
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