Abdallah lives with her seven children in Omdurman, one of the three cities that makes up Sudan's wider capital and has seen frequent fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/sudanese-canadian-campaigns-to-help-adopted-sister-stranded-in-khartoum/article_8d38b72b-1971-519b-a5fb-ab1c85a6a8fe.html

According to reports, the Sudanese paramilitary forces claim to have seized the presidential palace and set the civilian aircraft ablaze in an apparent coup attempt.

Source: https://onlinenigeria.com/stories/323531-nigerias-inflation-rate-hits-22-04-for-march-as-nbs-lists-causes-for-increase.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nigerias-inflation-rate-hits-22-04-for-march-as-nbs-lists-causes-for-increase

A fragile accord between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ripped open in April.

Source: https://realnewsmagazine.net/how-coups-climate-cost-of-living-shaped-2023-in-africa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-coups-climate-cost-of-living-shaped-2023-in-africa

Along the road linking Khartoum and el-Gezira, villagers are fleeing from place to place as Sudanese troops exchange fire with paramilitary fighters.

Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-rsf-el-gezira-panic-thousands-fleeing

A month after clashes began between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces, air strikes continue to pummel Sudan’s major cities while on the ground street battles rage.

Source: https://observers.france24.com/en/africa/20230517-khartoum-sudan-volunteers-bury-victims-of-conflict-bodies

A Telegram channel associated with the paramilitary Wagner Group, the ‘Grey Zone’, has that Yevgeny Prigozhin was indeed killed in a plane crash outside Moscow on Wednesday.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/08/23/wagner-boss-prigozhin-killed-in-private-jet-crash-north-of-moscow-says-russian-state-media/

At least 56 people, including an Indian, have been killed in clashes between the military and paramilitary groups in Sudan’s capital Khartoum and other areas.

Source: https://www.weeklyblitz.net/news/clash-between-army-and-paramilitary-force-in-sudan-56-including-one-indian-killed-around-600-injured/

A Wagner Group paramilitary forces’ vehicle in the Russian city of Rostov on Saturday.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-happening-with-wagner-in-russia-d6f6ce7a

A weeks-long power struggle erupted into battles Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/04/gunfire-sounds-during-armistice-4th-day-sudan-battles

But the number of paramilitary forces changes greatly between nations.

Source: https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/02/14/countries-with-the-largest-unofficial-military-forces/

Crunching over bullet casings, they navigated a gantlet of check posts manned by jittery fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, some wearing bandages or limping.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/world/africa/sudan-fighting-evacuations-rescue.html

Despite these similarities, children who are criminally exploited by paramilitary groups do not yet benefit from the protection and support that the national referral mechanism offers to victims of county lines drugs networks.

Source: https://theconversation.com/how-children-affected-by-criminal-exploitation-in-northern-ireland-need-better-legal-protections-206011

Far from bringing reconciliation between the two main traditions, the GFA keeps the political temperature high, which explains why 116 peace walls are now in place and paramilitary organisations remain in being.

Source: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/belfast-agreement-25-why-as-an-advisor-to-david-trimble-i-opposed-the-deal-and-still-think-it-a-mistake-writes-graham-gudgin-4126003

Fighting between the paramilitary group and the army broke out in the capital on Saturday morning, and has extended to several parts of the country, including Merowe.

Source: https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Sudan-s-paramilitary-force-shares-video-they-claim-shows-surrendered-Egyptian-troops--43501296/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20230415

However, there appears to be increasing tensions between the paramilitary group and Moscow’s regular forces.

Source: http://www.euronews.com/2023/02/12/russia-continues-to-close-in-on-bakhmut-claiming-capture-of-nearby-town

"I'm just not sure paramilitary values in the 19th century work so well in the 21st century."

Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/as-canada-s-rcmp-marks-150th-anniversary-a-look-at-what-it-says-needs-to-change-1.6249228

In televised remarks made during a meeting with the Moscow-installed head of the occupied Donetsk region in Ukraine, Putin said Prigozhin’s paramilitary Wagner group had “made a significant contribution to the fight against Nazism in Ukraine.”

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-president-vladimir-putin-crocodile-tears-opposition-assassination-yevgeny-prigozhin/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

International human rights groups and the United Nations have condemned the atrocities committed in since the war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out on 15 April.

Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-united-nations-amnesty-atrocities-condemned

Internet access was briefly blocked in Sudan on Sunday amid the ongoing clashes between the military and the powerful RSF paramilitary.

Source: https://yalibnan.com/2023/04/16/dozens-killed-hundreds-wounded-in-sudan-clashes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dozens-killed-hundreds-wounded-in-sudan-clashes

“Introduce diaspora voting, at least for presidential elections, to enable citizens to vote, especially those on essential service abroad, such as military, paramilitary, and other security personnel abroad, Embassy staff, and other citizens.

Source: https://leadership.ng/senate-to-introduce-diaspora-voting/