Sudan – Saudi, Russia, Egypt – a high stakes game

A local violent squabble in Sudan, Africa’s third-largest country, between the president and his vice-president, leaders of the transitional government after a 2019 coup that ousted long-term dictator Omar al-Bashir, could have wider ramifications. Both Egypt and Saudi Araba have a stake in the game, as well as the Russians through Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group. Inside Sudan, it pits the armed forces against a paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) originally known