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As elections loom, MINUSCA faces external doubts and internal tensions

Valentine Rugwabiza addresses a press conference in Bangui, 18 May 2022.
Valentine Rugwabiza addresses a press conference in Bangui, 18 May 2022. © Barbara Debout/AFP

The UN mission is struggling to plan its future as it prepares to provide security for a packed election calendar, including presidential polls. Its efforts are complicated by tensions between mission chief Valentine Rugwabiza and electoral division head Arsène Gbaguidi.

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El Fasher siege strains Burhan's alliance with militias

A rally called for by Sudan's Popular Front for Liberation and Justice in Port Sudan to denounce the siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on El-Fasher city, 24 April 2025.
A rally called for by Sudan's Popular Front for Liberation and Justice in Port Sudan to denounce the siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on El-Fasher city, 24 April 2025.

The capital of North Darfur, a Sudanese Armed Forces stronghold in the west of the country, is under bombardment by the Rapid Support Forces. Militias allied with the SAF are awaiting reinforcements from Khartoum, which are slow to arrive.

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