El Fasher Defection

A commander of the Sudan Armed Forces in North Darfur joins the RSF

A commander of Sudan’s 6th Infantry Division in North Darfur has defected with some of his men to the RSF. In a video message spread by unofficial RSF media, he promised Hemedti that he will deliver to him soon the SAF divisions in El Fasher and Zalingei.

It would be easy to dismiss this simply as propaganda—after all it is easy to stage such defections.…