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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend

UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group

Semi-uniformed men fire their AK-47 assault rifles in the air in a city
RSF fighters in the capital, Khartoum, after clashes with the Sudanese Armed Forces erupted in April last year. More than 8 million civilians have fled since then. Photograph: RSF/AFP/Getty

Foreign Office officials are holding secret talks with the paramilitary group that has been waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Sudan for the past year.

News that the British government and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are engaged in clandestine negotiations has prompted warnings that such talks risk legitimising the notorious militia – which continues to commit multiple war crimes – while undermining Britain’s moral credibility in the region.

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