Affected by war The leader of a major international aid organization warned the BBC that civil society is collapsing in the face of armed group proliferation, putting Sudan at risk of becoming another failed state.
According to Jan Egeland, chairman of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), there are several smaller “ethnic armies” that are robbing and going “berserk” on civilians in addition to the two main battling groups in Sudan, the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
“The parties are tearing down their own houses, they are massacring their own people,” he stated.
The army and RSF have been engaged in a bloody power battle for nineteen months, which has driven over 10 million people from their homes and brought the nation dangerously close to hunger.
