Sudan military factions at war with each other leave civilians to cower as death toll nears 100
CBSN
Americans were told to stay off the streets of Sudan as rival factions of the country's own armed forces continued battling for control of the east African nation Monday. The vicious power struggle — with thousands of heavily armed forces clashing on the streets of the capital and other cities since Saturday — was blamed for almost 100 deaths by Monday morning.
Airstrikes and shelling were causing power cuts and internet outages, blocking transport and forcing thousands of civilians to cower in their homes as a pair of powerful generals led the country further into chaos.
The two factions are led by military commanders who used to be allies. In 2021, Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, head of the country's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), united to launch a coup, seizing power over the country and derailing Sudan's fragile march toward democracy.
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