Declan Walsh

And its ambitions are no longer limited to control of Darfur.

It's part of this struggle for control of the entire country.

Since the war started over two years ago, at least 12 million people have been forced from their homes in Sudan.

As many as 400,000 have been killed by some estimates.

And about half the country is facing acute hunger with many instances of hunger.

declared famine mostly in the same region of Darfur.

And that's part of this civil war that's been raging in Sudan for the last two and a half years.

And that war has led to what is now widely recognized as the world's largest humanitarian crisis.

Well, when it started in April 2023, it looked quite simply like a power struggle between two rival generals at the top of Sudan's security forces.

But very quickly, that conflict spread from the capital Khartoum across the country, engulfing Africa's third largest country.

And, you know, the next logical question that stemmed from that for me was how are they all funding it?

So follow the money really became a central part of our reporting.

And in part, that's what brought me to Khartoum earlier this year at a very dramatic moment, just as the city was changing hands.

It was absolutely devastated.

You know, previously, just to paint you a brief picture, this was a very proud city on the Nile.

This is a country that had significant oil resources, deep gold resources.

It had a growing middle class.

And now much of the city had been laid to waste.

Entire neighborhoods of homes that had been looted, buildings destroyed, and in particular the city center around the presidential palace.

The presidential palace had become one of its biggest battlegrounds.