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The Partition: Sudan's De Facto Split

Three years into the SAF-RSF civil war, Sudan has split into two rival governments — the SAF's 'Hope Government' in Port Sudan and the RSF's 'Government of Peace and Unity' in Nyala — with 33 million people needing aid and no peace process in sight.

Sources (3)

Source Score
After Three Years of War, Sudan Army and RSF Locked in Military Impasse Al Jazeera 86%
World Report 2026: Sudan Human Rights Watch 92%
Civil War in Sudan — Global Conflict Tracker Council on Foreign Relations 92%

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Narration + Stagehand commands

Commands like [map.highlight] are Stagehand directives — they control the map renderer and pass through schema validation before any visual effect reaches the public output.

[map.view lat=15.5 lon=30.0 zoom=5]
[entity.propose id="city:port_sudan" type="city" name="Port Sudan" lon=37.22 lat=19.62]
[entity.propose id="city:nyala" type="city" name="Nyala" lon=24.88 lat=12.05]
[entity.propose id="city:el_fasher" type="city" name="El Fasher" lon=25.35 lat=13.63]
[map.highlight entity="country:sudan" color="#94a3b8"]
[map.circle lat=19.62 lon=37.22 radius=300 color="#38bdf8" opacity=0.3]
[map.circle lat=12.05 lon=24.88 radius=400 color="#ef4444" opacity=0.3]
[map.label entity="city:port_sudan" text="SAF — Hope Government"]
[map.label entity="city:nyala" text="RSF — Government of Peace and Unity"]
[map.label entity="city:el_fasher" text="Fell Oct 2025 — 60,000+ dead"]

[chat.say source="aljazeera_sudan_impasse_2026"]
Sudan now has two capitals, two governments, and two armies.
The SAF holds the east and Khartoum. The RSF holds Darfur and the west.

[scene.title kind=chapter eyebrow="Clio Short" title="The Partition" subtitle="Sudan's de facto split — three years of war, no end in sight"]
[map.view lat=15.5 lon=30.0 zoom=4]
[map.highlight entity="country:chad" color="#94a3b8"]
[map.highlight entity="country:egypt" color="#94a3b8"]
[scene.title kind=clear]

[chat.say source="hrw_sudan_2026"]
Thirty-three million people need humanitarian aid.
Five million are in famine or emergency conditions.
El Fasher fell in October — the RSF's takeover killed between sixty thousand and seventy thousand people.
Neither side is winning. Neither side is negotiating.
The world's largest humanitarian crisis has no peace process.

[scene.title kind=outro title="The Partition." subtitle="Follow Clio for more geopolitical intelligence."]