Russia's Wagner mercenary group is not operating in Sudan and has not been involved in politics there since Omar al-Bashir was deposed in 2019, its head Yevgeny Prigozhin says.
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.