Sudan’s revolution could end the conflict in Darfur

The transitional government is opting for talks instead of force


MEN WITHRSFUNAMIDUN guns fill the town of el-Fasher in western Sudan’s troubled Darfur region. At the airport dozens are boarding or disembarking from planes, wearing uniforms of the Rapid Support Forces (), a unit formed from Sudan’s murderous militia known as the Janjaweed.Down the road is the headquarters of , the peacekeeping force that was brought in 12 years ago to stop a genocide by the Janjaweed and Sudan’s army, whose base is in the centre of town. Seven months after the fall of General Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president accused of orchestrating that genocide, el-Fasher still looks like a town on the edge of a war zone.

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