Middle East and North Africa

We've seen over the course of the conflict proliferation of increasingly sophisticated hardware and military assets including, as you mentioned, heavy weaponry, armoured vehicles, UAVs, various forms of long-range drones and light munitions and so on, which has made a significant tactical and operational difference. It's obviously changed the nature of both urban and rural warfare. Particularly with the battle around Khartoum, you saw both SAF and the RSF deploying various drones, be them foreign manufactured and foreign supplied drones, and all sort of domestic derivatives and makeshift or improvised drones being used."

The RSF has been referred to as an offshoot, an evolution, or rebranding of the Janjaweed militias that were operating in the 2000s in Darfur,” said Michael Jones, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. “It features many of the same constituent parts, although RSF recruitment has expanded beyond the conventional confines of the Janjaweed,” Jones told Arab News. “It has much more sophisticated capabilities and far greater military, political and financial resources than previous militia groups.”