Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
Hybrid
The April 2026 hospital drone strikes confirm continued RSF operational tempo across multiple provinces, but no single event since the last score represents a structural shift.
PF Score
32
▼1Authority
47
Reach
22
Under construction
The April 2026 hospital drone strikes confirm continued RSF operational tempo across multiple provinces, but no single event since the last score represents a structural shift.
Tasis proto-state and drone campaign sustain Darfur coercive grip.
Egyptian supply interdiction caps external leverage at minimal floor.
The collapse of Sudan's gold export relationship with the UAE marks a structural realignment of Sudan's wartime commodity economy away from its historically dominant Gulf partner.
Sudan's civil war has crossed from a transitional breakdown into a structural partition, with the RSF's gold revenues, UAE patronage, and parallel governance in Darfur constituting a self-sustaining parallel sovereign actor that cannot be reintegrated through negotiation or conventional military pressure alone.
The Tiné drone strike represents a qualitative escalation in Sudan's civil war spillover, with cross-border attacks now producing mass casualties on Chadian soil.