[HIGHLIGHTS] The fuse of war between the army and the militias has ignited. Le Point: Is Sudan heading for civil war?

Clashes broke out on Saturday in the northern town of Meroe, then in the capital Khartoum and in several other cities. Since the beginning of the Sudanese revolution, Major General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the commander of the Rapid Support Forces militia have concealed mutual resentment.

The political process that began in December 2022 has exacerbated this entrenched rivalry, a diplomatic source points out. A Sudanese researcher specializing in militarization fears "civil war when citizens choose one side on the basis of its ethnic origin"