Nigeria, June 14 -- Africa has been so torn by violence that it has witnessed some of the most stupid wars in contemporary history. One that deserves a gold medal in this wise is that in Sudan where the Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, and its offshoot, the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, conspired to deny the civil populace its April 11, 2019 victory in ousting President Omar al-Bashir.

The military leaders had opportunistically aborted the uprising and shared the political offices amongst themselves. The SAF chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was made the Head of State and the RSF leader, General Mohammed Hamdan 'Hemedti' Dagalo the Deputy Head of State. Soon, they turned their guns on each other, tearing the country into two right from Khart...