Paramilitary forces' threat to form parallel gov't fuels concerns about fragmentation of Sudan

Clouds of smoke rising from a post belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after a drone attack launched by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), in Khartoum, Sudan. [Xinhua]

Concerns about the risk of fragmentation in Sudan began to loom larger after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo stated his intention to form a parallel government.

In an audio speech posted Thursday evening on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, Dagalo threatened to establish a parallel government in Khartoum and RSF-held areas if the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) declared a government in Port Sudan, the capital city of the Red Sea State in eastern Sudan.