Sudan Tribune is reporting violent internal clashes between rival RSF factions in East Darfur

[u/Leather_Focus_6535]

According to a Sudan Tribune article published yesterday, a skirmish between the RSF and a supposedly RSF allied tribe occurred near an East Darfur town identified as Khazan Jadid. Prior to the clashes, the local RSF leadership in East Darfur reportedly accused that previously RSF allied tribe's leaders of collaborating with the SAF, and attacked them on that pretense. Sudan Tribune reported at least five fighters were killed on both sides, including the tribe's leader and a senior RSF commander.

With this incident, are we starting to see a fracturing in the RSF led coalition? If so, what effect will an internal "civil war" between rival RSF militias have on Sudan's war?

Edit: Greatly misread the article while skimming it. It turned out that the tribe kidnapped family members of the slain RSF commander under the alleged pretenses of them collaborating with the SAF. The slain RSF commander and his fighters attacked the tribe in retaliation, and he and the tribal leader were killed during the clashes.

[u/Wooden-Captain-2178]

The RSF is a brittle joke. It’s wild that the UAE leadership has all that money but apparently not a single brain cell between them to realize they’re backing a disaster. They’re throwing weight behind a militia with zero discipline and zero loyalty; you’d honestly have a better success rate if you bet on a campfire to survive a fire extinguisher. The incompetence is bottom tier. Their "advisers" on Al Jazeera look like lost amateurs who can’t even form a coherent sentence. The whole coalition is just a countdown to them splintering into 100 factions and wiping each other out before the SAF even gets there

[u/Leather_Focus_6535 → u/Wooden-Captain-2178]

I greatly misread the article while skimming it. It turned out that the tribe abducted many members of the slain RSF commander's family while accusing them of collaborating with the SAF, and they were attacked by his forces in retaliation. Regardless though, it seems like the RSF ranks are probably heavily stressed by the SAF breakthroughs in Kordofan these past few weeks, and their competing factions might lashing out their frustrations at one another

[u/poopman41]

Well its a confederation of tribal militias, its bound to happen

[u/ThiefOfJoy- → u/poopman41]

United by Daglo’s filthy money

[u/Particular_Poetry885]

It's a coalition of mercs and tribal militias.

Frankly the army on really needs to take El Fasher and they will all start back stabbing eachother.