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.
In 2019, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the head of a paramilitary organisation called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) pledged over $1bn to help stabilise the Sudanese Central Bank in the aftermath of the econ.
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The tragedy of the Sudanese marginalised is that the man who is posing as their champion is the ruthless leader of a band of vagabonds, who has been supremely skilful in playing the transnational military marketplace.