Sudan - September 26, 2024 A civil war in Sudan that has claimed 150,000 lives and forced more than 11 million from their homes, according to some estimates, prompted the U.S. government on Tuesday to declare that one of the war’s main antagonists had perpetrated genocide: the ethnic Arab militia known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The war, which has drawn in foreign countries and a host of armed groups, now threatens to spill over Sudan’s borders. After 21 months of fighting, thousands of people have been killed in a campaign of ethnic cleansing, countless women and girls have been subjected to sexual violence, and millions are going hungry, in the world’s first officially declared famine since 2020.