Sudan's fragile progress unraveled between January 11-13, 2026. The army-aligned government boldly returned to Khartoum from Port Sudan after nearly three years, with Prime Minister Kamil Idris declaring 2026 the "year of peace" amid reconstruction efforts in the battered capital.
Yet, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries swiftly retaliated via drone strike on an army base in Sinja, southeast Sudan, killing 27—including senior officers and civilians—and wounding up to 73 others. This assault, amid the war's 1,000-day mark, highlights foreign arms flows from UAE, Egypt, and others fueling stalemate, with UN warnings of famine and 12 million displaced deepening the crisis.
