Fighting erupted Saturday in Khartoum, as tensions between the Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhane. The future of the paramilitaries is now the main issue in Sudan: any return to democratic transition is suspended until their integration into the regular troops.

It is this dispute that is still blocking the return to the transition demanded by the international community to resume its aid to Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world.