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Who are the RSF, and how did they become Sudan’s most powerful paramilitary group?

17 April 2023 17:08 BST

Fears of a possible civil war in Sudan intensify as fighting continues between the army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group. 

But who is the RSF, and how did it become Sudan's most powerful paramilitary group?

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Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, leader of the large and heavily-armed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), gives a military salute in the village of Qarri.
Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, leader of the large and heavily-armed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), gives a military salute in the village of Qarri in 2019 (AFP)