Darfur has been a household word in the West for several decades, thanks in part to efforts by a few Hollywood celebrities making it so, as they publicly called for action against the genocide that inflamed the African nation of Sudan for many years. George Clooney comes to mind.
A brutal civil war raged for almost 17 years before a comprehensive peace treaty was signed in 2020.
Now, the ugly face of war is once again coming to the northeastern African state as the "Rapid Support Forces," which were created to help the Sudanese government fight rebel groups during the previous conflict, have themselves become the rebellious army in a continuation of the civil unrest in Sudan.
