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Senate lawmakers called for a new approach after State Department officials led by Africa bureau director Molly Phee repeatedly downplayed warnings that the country’s rival generals were heading for a violent confrontation.
Senior officers from both the military and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have described how each side accumulated power and shifted alliances, leading to the eruption of all fighting between them last month two top generals fighting against each other
Over recent years, Sudan’s military and a separate armed force accumulated power, each suspicious of the other, even as they worked together against the country’s pro-democracy movement. Officers inside both forces say it was a long-building recipe for disaster. Their tenuous alliance ended in mid-April, when they turned their guns on each other, sparking a…