Sudanโ€™s civil war, grinding into its third year and scarring a nation already stretched thin, is increasingly defined not only by its battlefield losses but by the global contest for the countryโ€™s gold, farmland and strategic coastline โ€“ resources that have turned the conflict into one of the worldโ€™s most deeply entangled proxy wars.

Since April 2023, Sudanโ€™s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have fought for control of a country fractured by decades of unrest.

The RSFโ€™s October seizure of el-Fasher โ€“ the last major city in Darfur under army control โ€“ marked a turning point in a war that h

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