Exclusive: Thousands of men who worked as intelligence operatives under former president Omar al-Bashir and have ties to his Islamist movement are fighting alongside the army in Sudan's war, complicating efforts to end the bloodshed
a humanitarian crisis and threatening to destabilise the region. Reinforcements for either side could deepen the conflict.accusations by its rivals in the Rapid Support Forces that it depends on discredited loyalists of Bashir, an Islamist long shunned by the West, who was toppled during a popular uprising in 2019.
An Islamist resurgence in Sudan could complicate how regional powers deal with the army, hamper any move towards civilian rule and ultimately set the country, which once hosted al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, on a path for more internal conflict and international isolation. Bashir's former ruling National Congress Party said in a statement it had no ties to the fighting and only backed the army politically.
Nowadays, former NISS officers also help the military by collecting intelligence on its enemies in the latest conflict. The NISS was replaced by the General Intelligence Service after Bashir was toppled, and stripped of its armed "operations" unit, according to a constitutional agreement.
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