First it was a revolution confiscated, then a dispute between coup leaders that became a civil war. Three years on, Sudan is wondering if the fall of a key city in the western Darfur region is the cue for a second partition of the country. The massacre of civilians in Darfur is drawing comparisons with the genocide there two decades ago. That’s hardly surprising as the paramilitary leader who led the 18-month siege of El-Fasher is the same Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – aka General Hemedti – who was an instrumental leader of the notorious Janjaweed militias that operated in Darfur under deposed dictator Omar al-Bashir. We ask if Hemedti, himself a Darfuri, wants a South Sudan-style break with Khartoum or to take the whole of the country with help from his Emirati backers.  Human rights monitors accuse both sides of war crimes. The forces of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan also have their foreign backers. Who, then, can stop what's currently the world's bloodiest conflict, where the overwhelming majority of casualties are civilians? Warnings of executions and ethnic cleansing mount in Sudan's El-Fasher Produced by François Picard, Charles Wente, Rebecca Gnignati, Riham Mahir & Jean-Vincent Russo

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