Sudan's civil war fuels world's biggest humanitarian crisis — with worse still to come

In the ensuing war, both sides have been accused of war crimes and of weaponising humanitarian aid. "There is no straightforward good guy, bad guy binary that media attention and public attention usually craves to understand these types of situations," said Michael Jones, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a defence and security think tank. "The intent and in the scale of RSF atrocities are qualitatively different," he noted, citing reports that the militia is targeting specific populations. "SAF has been accused of indiscriminately shelling RSF-held areas and putting civilians at risk. Both are crimes but they are different in nature, intent and scale and they have a different underlying logic."