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Sudan's capital gripped by crime wave blamed on SAF's militias

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“Sudan's capital gripped by crime wave blamed on SAF's militias”

Abdel Rahman Tareq was tempted to return to Khartoum with his family after the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) retook the capital from its civil war adversary, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in late 2024. The 31-year-old engineer, his parents and siblings fled the country and found refuge in Saudi Arabia shortly after the war broke out in April 2023. There, they found security, jobs and education for two of his six siblings. But he was homesick, so found the courage to return to…

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