Following the Sudanese Armed Forces' capture of Khartoum, fighting will likely escalate around the city of El Fasher as the rival Rapid Support Forces seeks to consolidate control over Darfur, which will heighten the risk of a violent spillover into neighboring Chad. On March 26, Commander in Chief of the SAF Abdel Fattah al-Burhan announced that the army had recaptured the capital city of Khartoum from the paramilitary RSF. This came amid sustained gains by the SAF in and around the city in recent weeks, which prompted the RSF to withdraw its forces to the west of the Nile River in late March. Still, RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan ''Hemedti'' Dagalo insisted on March 30 that the group had tactically repositioned outside Khartoum and vowed to continue fighting the SAF. Since the RSF's withdrawal from Khartoum, clashes between the two sides have continued in the capital's twin city of Omdurman, located...
