The Economist
April 22nd 2023
6
The
world this week
Politics
War broke out in
Sudan
between the national army, led
by General Abdel Fattah
alBurhan, Sudan’s de facto
leader, who seized power in a
coup in 2021, and the Rapid
Support Forces, a paramilitary
commanded by Muhammad
Hamdan Dagalo. Some 300
people, most of them civilians,
were killed and at least 2,600
injured in the first few days of
fighting, which has seen tanks
and air strikes in Khartoum,
the capital. Hospitals and aid
agencies have been looted and
diplomats attacked.
Burkina Faso’s
military gov
ernment declared a general
mobilisation (claiming the
power to requisition people,
goods and services and to
impose a state of emergency)
to fight jihadists who control
around half the country. West
ern military sources worry that
jihadists moving south may be
able to encircle Ouagadougou,
the capital, having already cut
off road links in the north.
Rachid Ghannouchi, the long
serving leader of Ennahda,
Tunisia’s
main Islamist party,
was arrested, according to the
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