Today’s elites have remained the same and their rift has endured. The Dinka president Salva Kiir, born in 1951, has held his position continously since 2005. He has only faced elections once, in 2010. The Nuer vice-president and head of the #SPLM-IO (In Opposition) Riek Machar, born in 1950, has also held his position almost continuously since 2005 (apart from the war years).

#SouthSudan #War #CivilWar

As the South Sudanese guerrilla movement #SPLM (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement) became a terrorist one-party independent state, so opened an old rift between its elites, largely along ethnic lines. The ensuing #CivilWar (2013–2018) caused 4.5 million displaced (ca. 40% of the population) and ca. 380,000 excess deaths, including 190,000 violent deaths.

#SouthSudan #war

#SPLM-N regularly denounces a pattern of crimes against humanity and #genocide against the #Nuba in South #Kordofan, for example.

Other populations, especially ethnic minorities and other vulnerable groups, remain particularly at risk.

#Sudan #SPLMN #Darfur

In late January, the #RSF managed to take control of most of Babanusa (West #Kordofan), but not the #SAF garrison; failed to make progress in their siege of El Obeid (North Kordofan); lost Dilling (South Kordofan) to the rebel (and neutral) #SPLM-N, which allied to the SAF for that purpose; and most importantly lost Bahri/#Khartum North to the SAF.

#Sudan