\n Sudan's regular army warned Thursday that the country was at a \"dangerous... turning point\" after paramilitaries deployed more fighters in major cities amid a deepening rift within the military government.\n<\/p>\n
\n Military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has increasingly been at odds with his number two, paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, during talks to finalise a deal to return the country to civilian rule and end the crisis sparked by their 2021 coup.\n<\/p>\n
\n A plan to integrate the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by Daglo into the regular army led by Burhan is one of the key points of contention, analysts have said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Eleventh-hour haggling within the security forces over the details have twice forced postponement of the signing of an agreement with civilian factions setting out a roadmap for the transition.\n<\/p>\n
\n In its statement, the regular army said it was \"sounding the alarm as the country is at a dangerous historical turning point\".\n<\/p>\n
\n \"The risks are increasing as the RSF command mobilised and spread forces in the capital and other cities,\" the army said.\n<\/p>\n
\n It said the deployment, which \"took place without the approval of, or even just coordination with, the armed forces command\" has \"exacerbated security risks and increased tensions among security forces\".\n<\/p>\n
\n The RSF defended its deployment, saying it works in coordination with the regular army and its fighters \"move throughout the country to achieve security and stability\".\n<\/p>\n
\n Created in 2013, the RSF emerged from the Janjaweed militia that then president Omar al-Bashir unleashed against non-Arab ethnic minorities in the western Darfur region a decade earlier, drawing accusations of war crimes.\n<\/p>\n
\n In recent months, Daglo has said the 2021 coup was a \"mistake\" that failed to bring about change in Sudan and reinvigorated remnants of Bashir's regime, which was ousted by the army in 2019 following month of mass protests.\n<\/p>\n
\n Burhan, a career soldier from northern Sudan who rose the ranks under Bashir's three-decade rule, maintained that the coup was \"necessary\" to bring more groups into the political process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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