Sudan parallel government could offer route to arms, diplomatic leverage for RSF

A parallel government being set up by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) aims to grab diplomatic legitimacy from its army-led rival and ease access to advanced weaponry, politicians who back it and paramilitary sources told Reuters. The RSF on Sunday signed a political charter in Kenya with political parties and armed groups. The signatories said a "Government of Peace and Unity" would be formed within weeks from inside Sudan. The army condemned the RSF's charter as an attempt to expand the war at a time when the paramilitary force was on the back foot. RSF denied it wanted a government in order to import weapons but said it would have the authority to do so to defend its population.