Sudan is already fragmented ... The RSF could be left virtually unscathed, as it deals mostly in foreign currency and has a transnational support network spanning Libya, Chad and the Sahel.

Sudan struggling with worst economic crisis for decades* Central bank unable to pump enough dollars into the mkt* Drug makers ...

believes that this financial squeeze may accelerate RSF plans to establish a rival currency and administration. "The move has catalysed the already existing trajectory towards a split," she told AFP.

Sudan's army-aligned government has issued new ... "I've been going to the bank four or five times a week to get the new currency. But there is none," she told AFP, requesting anonymity for ...